Blowjobs and Terrorists

Helloooo Mr AT&T ........who's the customer....














EFF Sues AT&T to Stop Illegal Surveillance
Telecom Collaborated with NSA to Spy on Customers

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Tuesday, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.

The NSA program came to light in December, when the New York Times reported that the president had authorized the agency to intercept telephone and Internet communications inside the United States without the authorization of any court. Over the ensuing weeks, it became clear that the NSA program has been intercepting and analyzing millions of Americans' communications, with the help of the country's largest phone and Internet companies.
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_01.php#004369


Well where do I start with this, it is wrong on so many levels, I think these lines out of the article sum up the entire proposition of what is wrong with US politics at the moment

In the lawsuit, EFF alleges that AT&T, in addition to allowing the NSA direct access to the phone and Internet communications passing over its network, has given the government unfettered access to its over 300 terabyte "Daytona" database of caller information—one of the largest databases in the world.

"AT&T's customers reasonably expect that their communications are private and have long trusted AT&T to follow the law and protect that privacy. Unfortunately, AT&T has betrayed that trust," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien. "At the NSA's request, AT&T eviscerated the legal safeguards required by Congress and the courts with a keystroke."

I'm still in "Shock and Awe" that the US President was caught spying on the US population illegally without court orders and that the US media has pretty much swept it under the rug in under a few weeks.

This certainly isn't the general public (or congress) of the Nixon era...if tricky dick was in politics today he wouldn't even get a censure...let alone booted out in shame.

Clinton gets a blowjob in the oval office.....gets in trouble big time,
Bush breaks the law on a massive and unpresecedented scale - no one says a word because that would be seen as aiding and abetting the 'bad guy' terrorists.

Makes me want to move to Canada.


Cheers,
Dean


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