President Bush, the first traitor of the post-911 era

For the people lodging charges of treason and threatening physical violence against the New York Times and its editor and reporters for its mundane report on financial tracking of potential terrorist activity, let them direct their fulminating hatred at President Bush, who said this two weeks after 9-11:

We've established a foreign terrorist asset tracking center at the Department of the Treasury to identify and investigate the financial infrastructure of the international terrorist networks. It will bring together representatives of the intelligence, law enforcement and financial regulatory agencies to accomplish two goals: to follow the money as a trail to the terrorists, to follow their money so we can find out where they are; and to freeze the money to disrupt their actions.

We're also working with the friends and allies throughout the world to share information. We're working closely with the United Nations, the EU and through the G-7/G-8 structure to limit the ability of terrorist organizations to take advantage of the international financial systems.

Of course, we will see whether the people full of hate care whether they are totally inconsistent or not. I’m not betting on it.