Saturday, June 24, 2006

Largest processor of credit cards turned over info. to Feds

...right after 9/11.

Sure didn't take long for all of this spying stuff to get going, eh?

Washington and the West � 2006 � June � 21:

"Colorado's First Data Corp., the world's largest processor of credit-card transactions and wire transfers, gave the FBI and CIA unfettered access to data on millions of customers shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a new book alleges.
First Data's computer systems served as the 'FBI's own in-house search engine,' and the CIA was allowed to monitor money-wire transactions in real time, according to 'The One Percent Doctrine' by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind. "

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