AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for $89.

[kpete]

Thursday, January 12, 2006

AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for $89.95
by John in DC - 1/12/2006 01:22:00 PM


I reported the other day that your cell phone records are on sale online for anyone to buy, without your permission. Well, this morning AMERICAblog bought former presidential candidate, and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (SACEUR), General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for one hundred calls made over three days in November 2005, no questions asked. (Clark's cell phone provider is Omnipoint Communications, which seems to be related to T-Mobile.)

All we needed was General Clark's cell phone number and our credit card, and 24 hours later we had one hundred calls the general made on his cell phone in November. The calls included a number of calls to Arkansas, to foreign countries, and at least one call to a prominent reporter at the Washington Post. To ensure that we actually had General Clark's correct cell phone number, we called the number this morning and the voice mail recording that answered said:
"Hi, this is Wes Clark, leave a message ."
We have retained a recording of that voice mail message.

This is clearly outrageous. But let me first say, as an aside, that I bought my own Cingular Wireless phone records this past weekend and reported on it on AMERICAblog. I wouldn't do this to any other public person without first doing it to myself. But even after reporting on this gross violation of my (and your) personal privacy, Congress, the Administration, and the phone companies have yet to act effectively. (And they have known about it since at least this past July when the Washington Post reported on it.) So we decided to attempt to buy the records of a celebrity, so to speak. And we unfortunately succeeded.

read more at:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/americablog-just-bought-general-wesley.html

[Gloria]

1. DUPE

[sabra]

link?

[Bozita]

11. link -- from GDP

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2364606

[Roland99]

13. That's a different forum, though.

:P

[sabra]

3. ....

[FreedomAngel82]

2. No such thing as privacy anymore

Just get some money.

[blm]

4. Then get Abramoff's and Rove's. And Russert's and Woodward's.

.

[txindy]

5. They've put out a call for those numbers

Wouldn't those records make fascinating reading? :evilgrin:

[Bozita]

8. Gannon, ... Jeff Gannon

[blm]

9. Heh....how could I forget?

LOL

[kpete]

14. Lots of people

are making that suggestion at Americablog

[mattclearing]

16. Exactly what I was thinking.

A-blog doesn't seem to explain how to do it, though.

[Ksec]

6. Just thank the repubs for this invasion

Now they wanna put Scalito into the SC. Thats Scalito. The man who would take rights of privacy and throw them in the dumpster.

I thought repukes wanted less government ? Hasnt their spiel been about keeping gov out of our lives? And then they elect these monsters who have been caught spying on us? That party is finished. They cant be trusted with power.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. I always thought so too

:shrug:

[RedEarth]

7. I find this outrageous ..... sounds like CBS is going to do a segment this

evening......... from American Blog

The only question now remaining is why President Bush, our leaders in Congress, and our wireless phone companies (at the very least T-Mobile and Cingular, whose customers' records are available online to anyone) have known about this problem for at least six months but have yet to fix it.

PS CBS News is going to report on the cell records privacy scandal tonight (1/12/06) on their evening news broadcast.

[leftchick]

10. I want to see Karl Roves

And Cheneys. I know the dipshit doesn't have a cell phone and God knows I could not understand him anyway. :eyes:

[Roland99]

12. Get 'em all!

Rove
Mehlman
McClellan
Gillespie
Reed
DeLay
Abramoff
Scanlon
Blunt
Boehner
Gonzales
Miers
Cunningham
Feith
Wolfowitz
Perle
Rumsfeld

and on and on and on

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. Did Wes know they were doing this?

:scared:

Start buying REPUKE cell phone numbers and use them for the good of the country.

[incapsulated]

18. Only after the fact, he was then told

I don't think anyone volunteer's for this!

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. Love that deregulation. The USA is up for sale.

[MelissaB]

20. Is this a helpful link?

I'm looking. :evilgrin:

http://www.usa-people-search.com/?from=63118842

[MelissaB]

21. check this out

http://www.usa-people-search.com/Default.aspx?view=


Crap! Type in karl rove

[MelissaB]

24. never mind. It isn't for phone numbers.

I'm still looking.

[leftchick]

22. Holy Crap! CBS Evening News with Bob S will be covering this

tonight! :wow:

[LSK]

23. not sure if thats possible with my cell phone

I use virginmobile prepaid cards.

[Spazito]

25. Wow! All I can say is...WOW n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

26. holy canoli

Yikes.

[Adelante]

27. Apparently CNN covered this story

Anybody see it?