Sunday, November 22, 2009

• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's "Know Your Customer" plan would have required banks to report "unusual" customer activity — including simple deposits and withdrawals — to the government. Exposure of the plan in WorldNetDaily led privacy activists to bombard the FDIC with more emails and faxes than the agency had ever previously received. Ultimately, the U.S. Senate voted 88-0 to stop the proposal.
  
  
• Executive Order 13083 was President Clinton's total re-definition of federalism. After exposure in WorldNetDaily and subsequent protests from local and state officials across the country, the White House ultimately suspended the order and issued a rewritten version.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily was first to expose fundamental journalistic flaws in CNN-Time's "Tailwind" story, which alleged American soldiers had used chemical weapons during the Vietnam war. Ultimately, CNN and Time apologized for the documentary and fired the producers.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily was first to report the efforts of Congress to authorize a national identification card.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily first reported that Motorola and former Clinton national security adviser Richard Barth obtained the export of advanced encrypted radios to the Chinese police.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily first reported White House operative Terry Lenzner's long-time CIA connection.

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