Report: NSA Has Call Data On Millions

[Gumby]

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2006
(AP / CBS)

(CBS/AP) The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, a newspaper reports Thursday.

The government has amassed detailed records of calls of ordinary Americans â??across town or across the country â?? to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others, according to a USA TODAY report.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1609261.shtml

Gumby Reviewed by Gumby on 05-11-2006. Report: NSA Has Call Data On Millions WASHINGTON, May 11, 2006 (AP / CBS) (CBS/AP) The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, a newspaper reports Thursday. The government has amassed detailed records of calls of ordinary Americans â??across town or across the country â?? to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others, according to a USA TODAY report. Rating: 5

[xblackdogx]

Better article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/nsa...kxBHNlYwN0bQ--

pretty crazy though, you and me [assuming you have verizon, att, or bellsouth],
they have logs of our calls
and the companies got paid for the info!
corporations and government agencies
play too closely with so much money

fuel the fire for each other on corruption

[eg420ne]

Well at least USAma and da girls sleep well at night knowing NSA looking for them, Oh wait thats not happening....Trust your government they know best they love you, what! you dont like being screened! what do you got to hide!, just because you go to gay porn sites dont make you gay, <--from your favorite spy agency The NSA

[halo]

LOL looks like the civil war should start any day now!

[Myth1184]

Hey guys...you know your morons right..These records are already Public Knowledge and already are collected by Phone Companies. But Wo if the Gov starts to collect them, then its a vast Neo Conserv conspiracy. You guys need to get outside more.

[xblackdogx]

Hey guys...you know your morons right..These records are already Public Knowledge and already are collected by Phone Companies. But Wo if the Gov starts to collect them, then its a vast Neo Conserv conspiracy. You guys need to get outside more.

if it was public knowledge,
the NSA wouldn't be paying millions for it
and also be spending millions to cover it up

[Shelbay]

Hey guys...you know your morons right..These records are already Public Knowledge and already are collected by Phone Companies. But Wo if the Gov starts to collect them, then its a vast Neo Conserv conspiracy. You guys need to get outside more.

Your saying that a log of millions of personal calls are already public knowledge? I don't think so....

[Gumby]

Hey guys...you know your morons right..These records are already Public Knowledge and already are collected by Phone Companies. But Wo if the Gov starts to collect them, then its a vast Neo Conserv conspiracy. You guys need to get outside more.

the dumbest thing I think i've heard in a while...

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20...060320shorrock
Despite the President's rigorous defense of the program, no company has dared to admit its cooperation publicly. Their reticence is understandable: The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation of the government officials who leaked the NSA story to the Times, and many constitutional scholars and a few lawmakers believe the program is both illegal and unconstitutional. And the companies may be embarrassed at being caught--particularly AT&T, which spent millions advertising its global services during the
Winter Olympics. "It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it," says Bruce Schneier, the founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, a California consulting firm.

Corporations have been cooperating with the NSA for half a century. What's different now is that they appear to be helping the NSA deploy its awesome computing and data-mining powers inside the United States in direct contravention of US law, which specifically bans the agency from collecting information from US citizens living inside the United States. "They wouldn't touch US persons before unless they had a FISA warrant," says a former national security official who read NSA intercepts as part of his work for the State Department and the
Pentagon.

[Gumby]

WASHINGTON, DC (KNX) -- The story broken by USA Today yesterday about massive mining of the private phone records of millions of Americans has created a bipartisan firestorm on Capitol Hill.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) vowed to haul telephone companies before his committee under oath to ferret out details the Bush administration refuses to supply, and more than 50 House Democrats signed a letter demanding a criminal investigation by a special counsel.

In the House, Representatives Jane Harman (D-CA) and John Conyers (D-MI) immediately introduced a joint bill to kill the gargantuan database of U.S. citizens' phone records.

The measure would require any attempt to easvesdrop on Americans or collect telephone or e-mail records to be be conducted in accordance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), or Title III of the criminal code. In both cases, court warrants based on probable cause are required. The legislation states that FISA is the exclusive way to conduct electronic surveillance of U.S. persons on U.S. soil for intelligence purposes.

[xblackdogx]

this [NSA PROGRAM in general] really is a ridiculous stunt by the gov't
every hard question asked toward them, they answer the following
we cannot confirm or deny the existence of the program due to its classified nature, to respond to an inquiry in which i cannot confirm nor deny is unsustainable.

FUCK, NATIONAL SECURITY,
lies upon lies
over simple questions
CONGRESS IS FORSAKEN
ALL WRITTEN INTO LAW ACCEPTED
by CONGRESS THEMSELVES
the fear in which they live
of being unpatriotic or bombed by Pinocchio [unknowingly]
the POWER OF PROPOGANDA
"DUCK, a tower in your city falling soon!"

FUCK the Patriot ACT