[IP] more on Qwest's Refusal of N.S.A. Query Is Explained - New York Times
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From: Jim Morris <jim.morris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 12, 2006 5:15:00 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Qwest's Refusal of N.S.A. Query Is Explained - New
York Times
The only question is: how do I sign up for a Qwest account?
At 13:05 5/12/2006, you wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/washington/12cnd-phone.html?
hp&ex=1147492800&en=eb85158452eae01a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
May 12, 2006
Qwest's Refusal of N.S.A. Query Is Explained
By JOHN O'NEIL and ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, May 12 — The telecommunications company Qwest turned
down requests by the National Security Agency for private telephone
records because it concluded that doing so would violate federal
privacy laws, a lawyer for the telephone company's former chief
executive said today.
In a statement released this morning, the lawyer said that the
former chief executive, Joseph N. Nacchio, made the decision after
asking whether "a warrant or other legal process had been secured
in support of that request."
Mr. Nacchio learned that no warrant had been granted and that there
was a "disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any
legal process," said the lawyer, Herbert J. Stern. As a result, the
statement said, Mr. Nacchio concluded that "the requests violated
the privacy requirements of the Telecommunications Act."
A Qwest spokesman, Robert Toevs, declined to discuss anything to do
with security issues or the statement by Mr. Nacchio's lawyer.
Qwest was the only phone company to turn down requests from the
security agency for phone records as part of a program to compile a
vast database of numbers and other information on virtually all
domestic calls. The program's scope was first described in an
article published on Thursday by USA Today that led to an
outpouring of demands for information from Congressional
Republicans and Democrats. The article said that AT&T, BellSouth
and Verizon had agreed to provide the information to the security
agency.
The lawyer's statement came as Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who was the
head of the National Security Agency at the time the program began,
continued to seek support today for his nomination as C.I.A.
director in meetings with senators on Capitol Hill.
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