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Treasury Department officials spent 90 minutes Thursday urging Los Angeles Times staffers to not run their
story on a secret effort to track terrorist financing. The decision to publish was "a tough call; it was not a decision made lightly," says LAT DC bureau chief
Doyle McManus. New York Times editor
Bill Keller also heard from administration officials. "We remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use it may be, is a matter of public interest." (Read the Times'
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