Minor annoyance

In many of these stories about the monitoring of international financial transactions (I agree with Richard Clarke, it's ridiculous to be upset about it as opposed to the monitoring of US citizen domestic calls) the network is incorrectly referred to as "Swift". "Swift" is a number of things but is not the Society for the Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).

Our bitch

(EDIT moved behind a cut)

We've got a clue as to Cleo's parentage.

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