Wiretapped Teles Who May Have Cooperated With NSA

[mntleo2]

Got this off Raw Story who got it from a C/Net article and think it is significant.

The Electronic Frontier ( http://www.eff.org ) may be worth some support here as they have already sued AT&T over this issue. There is information about the national scene, but also there was some information about local companies, that they either refused to say if they had participated or not. Just thought you all might like to know who is refusing to say whether or not they cooperated (which means to me that most likely they did) and what this may mean as far as your telecommunications company is doing...


Here is some information as to what the NSA did locally:

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"...Global Crossing spokesman Tom Topalian said "99 percent of wiretapping is done at a local phone company level" instead of at backbone providers. Topalian declined to answer questions about NSA access, and added: "All U.S. carriers have to comply with the CALEA act, and Global Crossing complies with CALEA." (CALEA is a 1994 federal law requiring certain telecommunications providers to make their networks wiretap-friendly for domestic law enforcement, not intelligence agencies.)
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., last month sent a letter (click for PDF) to companies including Google, Yahoo, EarthLink, Verizon and T-Mobile asking them if they cooperated with the NSA. News.com asked similar questions, but expanded the number of companies to include backbone and submarine cable providers..."
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http://news.com.com/Some+companies+helped+the+NSA,+but+who/2100-1028_3-6035305.html


Cat In Seattle

[Hissyspit]

1. k & r

[MADem]

2. Global Crossing and the Dunce's deddy go back a ways

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/11/BU93172.DTL&type=business


.......But was the president also paying unusually close attention to Global Crossing, the telecom pioneer that followed Enron into bankruptcy court and, like Enron, was subsequently accused of accounting fraud?

The connection in this case is a bit more indirect, and it goes back to Tokyo in early 1998.

That's when the other George Bush, the president's father, was appearing on Global Crossing's behalf at an event in the Japanese capital. His normal fee for such gigs was $100,000.

But Bush was intrigued by Global Crossing's prospects. During a breakfast with the company's co-chairmen, Lodwrick Cook (an old Bush chum and former head of Atlantic Richfield Co.) and Gary Winnick, Bush agreed to take his compensation in Global Crossing stock. ......

[Wordie]

3. K&R...I still want to know if the "privacy practices" form the telephone

company sends everyone is an authorization for this. Does anybody read those things???

[mntleo2]

4. Hardly Ever

...are they readbale, lol. But, as a techie interested in our electronic freedoms, I do read them, even if I am not that savvy sometimes about what is being said. The list of companies saying they had not given this info out was also interesting. I did not know if I believed them or not. Plus I forgot that Global Crossing was a KB&R affiliate. Sheesh.

Have I mentioned today how much I hate these people? Thanks Mike Malloy!

Cat In Seattle

[Just Me]

5. So, the BushCO/neoconster "big brother" program appears as,...

,...broad and offensive as we all feared.

I'm not surprised. When will EVERY "representative" act with impunity against such totalitarian-type (in addition to criminal and offensive to the Constitution) activities by this regime? That's their damn job!!!!

HMPF! I am amazed at how weak Congress has become. They're allowing an American dictatorial regime walk all over them,...even exploit them. It's incredible.