Telecom companies are an “arm of the government”
Wired
10/08/09
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying. Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn’t enough to squash a rights group’s open records request for communications between the nation’s telecoms and the feds. … The Electronic Frontier Foundation wanted to see what role telecom lobbying of Justice Department played when the government began its year-long, and ultimately successful, push to win retroactive immunity for AT&T and others being sued for unlawfully spying on American citizens...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/att-doj-foia/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AT&T
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=retroactive+immunity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbying
10/08/09
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying. Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn’t enough to squash a rights group’s open records request for communications between the nation’s telecoms and the feds. … The Electronic Frontier Foundation wanted to see what role telecom lobbying of Justice Department played when the government began its year-long, and ultimately successful, push to win retroactive immunity for AT&T and others being sued for unlawfully spying on American citizens...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/att-doj-foia/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AT&T
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=retroactive+immunity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbying
rudkla - 9. Okt, 10:02
