NSA builds massive database of Americans’ phone calls
USATODAY has a surprisingly in-depth article describing the NSA’s efforts to extort private information from the Telcoms. All the big Telcoms folded except Qwest…
Go Qwest!
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May 12th, 2006
Telcos could be liable for billions…
May 12th, 2006
Here I go commenting again…
Citizen tries to get answers from AT&T…
May 12th, 2006
Who is going to prosecute the companies that gave call data to the NSA? The US Justice Department has already dropped one of its investigations of NSA domestic spying because they were not going to be given sufficent security clearance necessary to investigate. I somehow doubt NSA is going to leave the companies hanging since they continue to desire the data they’ve been collecting as it accrues. Additionally, the US Justice Department is, in large part, manned by people who provided much of the alleged legal basis under which this domestic spying has taken place.
I’m glad I live a rather dull life, legally speaking, and am unlikely to draw notice from spies, but it still bothers me deeply that it has been going on and continues to do so.
Until backs are pressed against walls, I expect that no citizens, or federal legislators for that matter, are going to get clear answers from NSA or any other part of the federal executive branch, or from the companies that have rolled over for same.