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[privacy] Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:15:56 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alternate title: "Warrantless Eavesdropping: Not Just For Anti-Terrorism Any More." Via The New York Times. [snip] For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies from lawsuits for aiding the National Security Agencys warrantless eavesdropping program. But the battle is really about something much bigger. At stake is the federal governments extensive but uneasy partnership with industry to conduct a wide range of secret surveillance operations in fighting terrorism and crime. The N.S.A.s reliance on telecommunications companies is broader and deeper than ever before, according to government and industry officials, yet that alliance is strained by legal worries and the fear of public exposure. To detect narcotics trafficking, for example, the government has been collecting the phone records of thousands of Americans and others inside the United States who call people in Latin America, according to several government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the program remains classified. [snip] More: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/washington/16nsa.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHZIpcq1pz9mNUZTMRApc/AKDoqaPQ3KI+CcFQ5G6bzq4SpFFKGQCeOVBj j0xCfdTvmxx7X4d2xVsFvI4= =s1LC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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