Presidential Memorandum Permits Verizon to Lie About Phones

[dugoboy]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/17/new-executive-order/" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">New Presidential Memorandum Permits Intelligence Director To Authorize Telcos To Lie Without Violating Securities Law</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT."</p><i></i>

[sussurus2]

Interesting. Muchas Gracias.<br><br>Both my cell and internet are provided by companies who are at the forefront of this issue--distressing and disappointing to say the least--but when I researched alternatives I realized there really is little that doesn't travel over the networks already named. There's also the probability that there are no telco companies that aren't complicit. Dang.<br><br>S. <p></p><i></i>

[StarmanSkye]

Mind-numbingly in-fucking-credible; Now it's official: Lies are authorized to cover-up, deflect, shield, protect Gummint's out-and-out contempt not only for the letter, but the very SPIRIT of Law.<br><br>Does ANYONE need further proof this Gummint is a fucking travsety? Bad enough we have so-called Presidential Directives where the faux-President makes a big show of signing a hard-sell legislation into law, and then quietly having his Mafia-Lawyers quietly insert into the official record a notice on how the President will disregard the legislation based on 'his' interpretation of his 'duty' to the office -- and that seldom-used National Security Letters have now become routine for the White House to shut-down embarrassing litigation that threatens to reveal enormous official wrong-doings.<br><br>'Course, that what was bound to happen when the biggest gangsters of all have infiltrated the reins of power.<br><br>I don't doubt the 'Verizon authorized to lie' scam is part of innoculating CIA-director candidate General Hayden.<br><br>Bastards.<br><br>The Feds are so busy surveilling everybody BUT the scum at the very top.<br><br>That's an ironic bit of tragicomic blowback for decades of treason, betrayals, war-crimes, corruption, murder as 'business', genocide, ecocide, foreign intrigues and coups, death squads, theft of national resources, strong-arming, invasions, covert wars, torture, kidnappings, drug-and-arms scams, overthrowing legitimate governments, global scams and rackets, poisoning whole populations, election frauds, blackmail, mind-control, illegitimate and illegal experiments, systemic injustices, human and civil rights abuses, political assassinations, and on and on and on ...<br><br>'Freedom' and 'Democracy' my ass.<br><br>It's not a quirk that violence and crimes, theft and lies are all the PTB are good at ...<br><br>If only we could send them all on a 'vacation' to Mercury, and get-on with the important job of making the world a better place for EVERYBODY.<br>Starman <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70908-0.html?tw=rss.technology">www.wired.com/news/techno...technology</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence<br><br>Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the company, which alleges that AT&T illegally cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic-surveillance program. In this recently surfaced statement, Klein details his discovery of an alleged surveillance operation in an AT&T office in San Francisco, and offers his interpretation of company documents that he believes support his case.<br><br>For its part, AT&T is asking a federal judge to keep those documents out of court, and to order the EFF to return them to the company. Here Wired News presents Klein's statement in its entirety, along with select pages from the AT&T documents.<br><br>AT&T's Implementation of NSA Spying on American Citizens<br><br>31 December 2005<br><br>I wrote the following document in 2004 when it became clear to me that AT&T, at the behest of the National Security Agency, had illegally installed secret computer gear designed to spy on internet traffic. At the time I thought this was an outgrowth of the notorious Total Information Awareness program which was attacked by defenders of civil liberties. But now it's been revealed by The New York Times that the spying program is vastly bigger and was directly authorized by President Bush, as he himself has now admitted, in flagrant violation of specific statutes and constitutional protections for civil liberties. I am presenting this information to facilitate the dismantling of this dangerous Orwellian project.<br>AT&T Deploys Government Spy Gear on WorldNet Network.<br><br>In 2003 AT&T built "secret rooms" hidden deep in the bowels of its central offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which taps into the company's popular WorldNet service and the entire internet. These installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the internet and analyze exactly what people are doing. Documents showing the hardwire installation in San Francisco suggest that there are similar locations being installed in numerous other cities.<br><br>...<br><br>To mollify critics, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) spokesmen have repeatedly asserted that they are only conducting "research" using "artificial synthetic data" or information from "normal DOD intelligence channels" and hence there are "no U.S. citizen privacy implications" (Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General report on TIA, December 12, 2003). They also changed the name of the program to "Terrorism Information Awareness" to make it more politically palatable. But feeling the heat, Congress made a big show of allegedly cutting off funding for TIA in late 2003, and the political fallout resulted in Adm. Poindexter's abrupt resignation last August. However, the fine print reveals that Congress eliminated funding only for "the majority of the TIA components," allowing several "components" to continue (DOD, ibid). The essential hardware elements of a TIA-type spy program are being surreptitiously slipped into "real world" telecommunications offices.<br><br>much more ... <p></p><i></i>

[sussurus2]

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