I happen to be a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal. I noted that on the day the "Times Two" (New York and Los Angeles) published the SWIFT story, so did the Journal. I wondered about this and wrote it off initially as a "me too" printing of the story. Now their side of the story is being explained.
Please read it in detail. If you follow their timeline, what they knew, and when they knew it. and I think you'll see that their decision to print is wildly different from the Times Two. To quote the editorial page:
Would the Journal have published the story had we discovered it as the Times did, and had the Administration asked us not to? Speaking for the editorial columns, our answer is probably not. Mr. Keller's argument that the terrorists surely knew about the Swift monitoring is his own leap of faith. The terror financiers might have known the U.S. could track money from the U.S., but they might not have known the U.S. could follow the money from, say, Saudi Arabia. The first thing an al Qaeda financier would have done when the story broke is check if his bank was part of Swift.
I believe Bill Keller's decision is sinking his organization fast. A decision he thought would win him accolades has brought him and his organization nothing but trouble.
-Colonel Steve


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