[lit-ideas] Qwest and the NSA

  • From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:53:06 -0700

The Bush White House argued that because of 9.11, they needed to be able to carry out surveillance without search warrants. 


It turns out this is a lie. The NSA had been doing this before 9.11.
Qwest refused to cooperate in illegal spying. The government retaliated by withdrawing a $100m contract.
The White House said they needed spying in order to "protect" us, but they were already spying and that didn't prevent 9.11. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202485.html

yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com 
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