Snow: Tracking Americans Financial Transactions Is "Government At Its Best"...

Associated Press JEANNINE AVERSA June 23, 2006 at 02:34 PM

Treasury Secretary John Snow on Friday said a program tracking millions of financial transactions was not invasion of privacy of Americans but "government at its best" and vital to the war on terrorism.

Snow told a news conference the program, run by the CIA and overseen by the Treasury Department, was "responsible government, it's effective government, it's government that works."

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