Dictators Get Privacy...What About the Rest of Us?

If you are an ordinary American, your bank may think nothing of losing your private personal financial information, and putting you at risk of identity theft.

But if you are a brutal, murderous dictator, your financial dealings are safe and sound. As the Associated Press reports, a group of U.S. banks Allowed Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet "to use phony account names, offshore companies and other deceptions to hide an estimated $13 million or more from U.S. examiners and from international prosecutors."

The hypocrisy never ends...