2 on Bank Data

Newspapers Reject Government Request to Kill Story
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406E.shtml
The New York Times and Los Angeles Times on Friday published a major story on
government surveillance of private banking records over the objections of the
Bush administration. The papers reveal that the White House had asked them not
to run it. This had happened with the story about NSA spying as well, prompting
the New York Times in that case to put off running the story for a year.

Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062406F.shtml
Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday vigorously defended a secret program that
examines banking records of Americans and others in a vast international
database, and harshly criticized the news media for disclosing an operation he
said was legal and "absolutely essential" to fighting terrorism.