[IP] Spying on phone calls started *before 9/11*
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From: William Reardon <wdr1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 6, 2006 7:11:49 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Spying on phone calls started *before 9/11*
Seven months before 9/11 would be 2/11. Bush was sworn in on
1/20/01, meaning this policy would have been decided *very* early on,
roughly the 3rd week of his administration. Of course it's possible
that is the case, or that the Bloomberg report is wrong, but if it's
not, is there any chance that the Bush administration was simply
continuing on a policy either implemented or initiated by Bill Clinton?
On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:59 AM, David Farber wrote:
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From: Brett Glass <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 5, 2006 1:44:06 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: For IP: Spying on phone calls started *before 9/11*
Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T
Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months
before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court
papers filed in New York federal court.
The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's
largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy
case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications
Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three
carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the
Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks
money damages.
``The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after
9/11,'' plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone
interview. ``This undermines that assertion.''
The lawsuit is related to an alleged NSA program to record and
store data on calls placed by subscribers. More than 30 suits have
been filed over claims that the carriers, the three biggest U.S.
telephone companies, violated the privacy rights of their customers
by cooperating with the NSA in an effort to track alleged terrorists.
``The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither
confirm nor deny AT&T's participation in the alleged NSA program
because doing so would cause `exceptionally grave harm to national
security' and would violate both civil and criminal statutes,''
AT&T spokesman Dave Pacholczyk said in an e-mail.
U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller and NSA
spokesman Don Weber declined to comment.
More at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=20601087&sid=abIV0cO64zJE
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