Are we at war with Ireland?
No? Then why do we think we can rummage about in their banking records?
CIA monitors personal bank data of Irish citizens
Jamie Smyth in Brussels
The personal data of thousands of Irish citizens that have sent or received money transfers to and from the US has been covertly logged by US anti-terrorist agencies.
The Government did not know about the monitoring scheme, but several EU central banks were informed about the programme, which was introduced after the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. Under the scheme the CIA can sift through millions of international banking transactions to try to identify potential terrorist financing.</i>
