Brussels gives CIA the power to search UK bank records

THE CIA is to be given broad access to the bank records of millions of Britons under a European Union plan to fight terrorism.

The Brussels agreement, which will come into force in two months’ time, requires the 27 EU member states to grant requests for banking information made by the United States under its terrorist finance tracking programme.

In a little noticed information note released last week, the EU said it had agreed that Europeans would be compelled to release the information to the CIA “as a matter of urgency”. The records will be kept in a US database for five years before being deleted.

Critics say the system is “lopsided” because there is no reciprocal arrangement under which the UK authorities can easily access the bank accounts of US citizens in America.

Source/Full Story: Times Online

Related posts

• WikiLeaks Airs Classified CIA Memo, But Real Message Is No Secret
• U.S. to open military to temporary immigrants
• European Union blasts ‘theft’ of citizens’ identities
• ‘Bin Laden message’ to Europe appears on Internet
• You Tube: ALEX JONES: As United States Collapses, Media Worship LeBron James