US Treasury rejects senators' Saudi information demand

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05382813.htm

WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday rejected a Senate committee's demand for a list of Saudi organizations and individuals that have been investigated as terrorism financiers, saying disclosing the names would hamper efforts to block terrorists' money supply.

Several members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee at a hearing last week said there were concerns the Bush administration was shielding Saudi Arabia from sanctions, despite accusations its government has turned a blind eye to Saudi wealth underwriting al Qaeda and other terror organizations around the world.

They demanded a list of Saudi entities that Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control recommended be sanctioned as terrorism financiers, but were rejected in interagency reviews.

The Treasury Department said in a statement the information the senators requested "related to ongoing U.S. government efforts to disrupt terrorist financing. Public disclosure at this time would frustrate those efforts."

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[Occulus]

1. Since when

do "interagency reveiws"- presumably between unelected officials, although I've been wrong before- trump Congress?

Oh wait, I know. Since 9-11.

ARRGGGHHHHH!!!

[tom_paine]

2. LIARS!

One might argue that, in the contemporary Amerikan Empire, the concepts of "lies" and "truth" are archaic.

History begiuns afresh every day with a clean slate. It ends every night a black hole. Whatever the Busheviks wish to write in history IS history...until they choose to rewrite it tomorrow.

The Imperial Subjects of Amerika are INCAPABLE of feeling anything about anything which doesn't touch them personally unless the TV tells them 12 times
tells them 12 times
tells them 12 times
tells them 12 times.

Orwell was right. He just was 17 years early.

[joanski01]

3. More bulllshit lies from

the Treasury Department. Treasury takes its orders from the White House. This is just sickening. We can't find out the truth about anything.

[umcwb]

4. Locking - Dupe

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