On 08/16/2015 09:47 AM, Shelley wrote: > Nothing we didn't know or expect, just more confirmation/proof that > AT&T & Verizon are all too eager to get on their knees for the NSA. > > https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-spying-relies-on-atts-extreme-willingness-to-help > > > Also worth a look: how they connected the dots, supporting documents. > https://www.propublica.org/article/a-trail-of-evidence-leading-to-atts-partnership-with-the-nsa > > > (Apologies for not including the article text, I'm currently mobile.) > > -S > > >
Institute for Public Accuracy has issued a press release from AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein. Klein was the AT&T technician who blew the whistle on AT&T’s cooperation with the NSA in 2006. http://www.accuracy.org/release/att-whistleblower-on-companys-partnership-with-nsa/ > “The documents prove I was right, and if a court had been willing to > allow the Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit against AT&T to go > forward, we would have won. But Congress knowingly put a retroactive > pseudo-‘legal’ stamp on the violations of law and the Constitution, > and the courts accepted it. Both parties are to blame, all three > branches of government are culpable. > > “I’d gotten my story out through the New York Times in April 2006 > after the Los Angeles Times had killed it. The editor who killed the > story was Dean Baquet — who is now executive editor at the New York Times. > > “Obama had campaigned against immunizing the telcos, but by the time > the vote happened in 2008, he had sewn up the nomination and switched > sides. It was a betrayal even before he got to the White House. > > “The entire congressional leadership pushed this, especially the ‘gang > of eight’ who were the ones who actually knew what the immunity was > about. My own senator, Dianne Feinstein, who was on the intelligence > committee, wouldn’t even speak with me, she was all about covering up > for the NSA. > > “Many in congress who voted for the immunity blindly voted to immunize > a crime details of which they didn’t know or didn’t want to know. > > “It wasn’t just AT&T of course, it was that the Bush administration > had brazenly violated FISA and of course the Constitution. They didn’t > have a legal leg to stand on, which is why they needed the immunity.” There's more, mostly a sitrep, on site. RR
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