NSA & Other Gov Agencies RETALIATED Against Qwest For REFUSING To Go Along With Phone Spying Program

[kpete]

Documents: Qwest was targeted
'Classified info' was not allowed at ex-CEO's trial

By Sara Burnett And Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News
October 11, 2007

The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.

The documents indicate that likely would have been at the heart of former CEO Joe Nacchio's so-called "classified information" defense at his insider trading trial, had he been allowed to present it.

The secret contracts - worth hundreds of millions of dollars - made Nacchio optimistic about Qwest's future, even as his staff was warning him the company might not make its numbers, Nacchio's defense attorneys have maintained. But Nacchio didn't present that argument at trial.

The documents suggest U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham refused to allow Nacchio to present the argument about retaliation. Nottingham also said Nacchio would have to take the stand to raise the classified defense.

more at:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_5719566,00.html

[zestfolly]

1. just one more example of the fascist state we've become