Reply #9: Yeah and they tap phone calls too

[NewYorkerfromMass]

can you believe it?
I mean, I can't believe the terrorists would ever think in a thousand millon billion years that their phone calls (or bank transactions) weren't secure or were being monitored.

from Bush remarks of September 24, 2001:

I've signed an executive order that immediately freezes United States financial assets of and prohibits United States transactions with 27 different entities. They include terrorist organizations, individual terrorist leaders, a corporation that serves as a front for terrorism, and several nonprofit organizations.

... This executive order means that United States banks that have assets of these groups or individuals must freeze their accounts. And United States citizens or businesses are prohibited from doing business with them.

... We're putting banks and financial institutions around the world on notice, we will work with their governments, ask them to freeze or block terrorist's ability to access funds in foreign accounts. If they fail to help us by sharing information or freezing accounts, the Department of the Treasury now has the authority to freeze their bank's assets and transactions in the United States....

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010924-4.html

But those damn 'librul news outfits went and spoiled the whole thing!