Yeah, SWIFT is a horrible thing, just terrible. That's one of the worst things that's happened since Watergate, and hardly anyone knows about it! It involves co-opting foreign citizens in private industry to be US spies.

But yeah - I mean, this is just another of the many pieces of hypocrisy in George Bush's world-view, yes?

I mean, on the one hand, he's telling "us" domestically, that "national security" (read: sovereign national borders) are the "most important priority" -

And then he's trampling around the rest of the world, pretending those borders don't even exist, and that the US somehow has "dominion" over whoever it wants to that day.

That guy is a real menace.

But not to worry, it's only a few hundred more days. now. I just pray the guy doesn't "accidentally" do something wrong before that.