Don’t you just hate it when politicians cheapen the genuine historic achievements of real heroes in the past to trump up their latest bit of bureaucracy. Well, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer took that to a new high (or low if you will) today when he compared a bunch of accountants looking for Al Queda money to the foundation of Computer Science by Allan Turing & Co. at Bletchly park in the early 1940s. Honestly, what an insult to the great legacy of the fathers of a discipline that has totally changed the world and arguably saved it from Fascism. Below is a quote from an AP article by Tariq Panja on the matter:<\/p>\n
"British Treasury Chief Gordon Brown plans to assemble a team of
\nfinancial experts to end terrorism funding streams \u00c2\u2014 the equivalent of
\nthe intelligence experts who broke the Nazis’ Enigma Code during World
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