We've been saved: Senate Passes Bill to Expand U.S. Spying Powers - Page 2

Richterscale · 02-13-2008, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by BillCosby

SOme good points..................

But I am not hearing any of these companies being forced to do this either............ Why are they not speaking out against this either???

These telecoms are being fed lucrative contracts to play ball. It's all about the money with them.

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FBI Wiretap Cut Off After Feds Fail To Pay Telecom Spying Bills
By Ryan Singel January 10, 2008 | 12:48:31 PMCategories: Spooks Gone Wild

The FBI routinely failed to pay telecom companies promptly for providing phone and internet lines to the FBI's impressive domestic surveillance architecture -- resulting in at least one phone company cutting off a foreign intelligence wiretap until the FBI paid its bill, according to an audit released Thursday.

The Justice Department's Inspector General also found that telecom charges and invoices for surveillance overwhelmed the FBI's ability to keep track of their bill and that one field office got a $66,000 bill from a carrier for unpaid surveillance work.

Some of the problems stemmed from telecoms billing multiple times for individual surveillance warrants -- which, in the case of Cox Communications, costs $1500 for a 30-day wiretap order. But telecoms also bill the FBI for internet connections and phone lines that connect the carrier's wiretap-friendly switches with the FBI's wiretap software system known as the Digital Collection System.

Former FBI agent and now ACLU national security policy counsel Mike German directed his ire at the telecoms who happily played along with the government's warrantless spying and let the FBI illegally get customer records following requests to get surveillance today with false promises to pay with a court order tomorrow.

"To put it bluntly it sounds as though the telecoms believe it when FBI says warrant is in the mail but not when they say the check is in the mail," German said.

BillCosby · 02-13-2008, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Richterscale

These telecoms are being fed lucrative contracts to play ball. It's all about the money with them.

All ways about the money...............

Americans can vote w/ their pocketbooks & shun these stocks.........

Richterscale · 02-13-2008, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by BillCosby

All ways about the money...............

Americans can vote w/ their pocketbooks & shun these stocks.........

And dump their services for a company who won't sell your info to the government.

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