You may not be, but I was.  In point of fact I noted a recent - within the past
week - article that the feds want to reduce the cash transaction reporting threshhold
for US financial institutions from $10,000 to $750.  That's *all* cash transactions,
not just international transactions.

 G> From: "Geo" 

 G> We are not talking about US transactions, these are global records,
 G> money flowing from china to japan would be in the records they had
 G> access to.

 G> Geo.

 G>  wrote in message
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 >> Replying to a message of Geo to Mark:
 >> 
 G>>> Do you know why this administration keeps getting their nuts burnt
 G> with
 G>>> leaks? It's because the people working for them believe they have
 G>>> crossed a line. That's why these people go to the media, because
 G>>> they think what's going on is wrong, un-needed, and irresponsible.
 >> 
[snip]
 >> 
 >> The current brouhaha over the NYT publishing 'secret' gov't tracing of
 >> 'terrorist' financial transactions is another administration attempt
 >> to silence criticism.
 >> It's been public knowledge for at least a decade that the government has
 >> been monitoring financial transactions (any cash transaction > $10,000
 >> must be reported to the government - note that the criteria may have
 >> changed, and the threshold is probably lower, since I last read about it)
 >> as part of its 'war on drugs' (note that making two transactions, one for
 >> $9,000 and one for $1,000 is also considered a crime - attempting to
 >> circumvent the law); the tax people do it, too - looking for unreported
 >> income.   The bottom line is that the government isn't just
tracking 'terrorist'
 >> financial transactions, it's tracking *all* financial
transactions - and has been
 >> for years, people just aren't aware of it; and if the government would stop
 >> complaining and threatening the NYT, the people will have
forgotten all about it by
 >> this time next week.
 >> 
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