We are now back online as of about 12:58 p.m. Wednesday after our high speed Internet service at Charter.Net and our blog cgi bin server were sabotaged Friday night, not long after we led the news with this story (which was online on Friday before making the papers on Saturday) - now in the news since Monday as Bush and Cheney both went on the campaign trail to bash the press for telling the public what a lot of us have already known for some time.

Financial Searches Raises Privacy Fears

For most Americans, the confidentiality of their bank accounts and other financial holdings is a right to be cherished. The idea that government agents might be secretly scrutinizing the records of individuals arouses discomfort in people who view their wealth, income and other financial information as nobody’s business but their own. So questions of privacy arose yesterday after revelations that the Bush administration has been tracking clues about terrorists by searching the records of a Belgium-based banking consortium that handles millions of financial transactions daily across national borders.

An investigation is underway to find out how our service was sabotaged and by whom. Check back and hit refresh for updates.

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