More than two and a half years after the disclosure of President’s Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program set off a furious national debate, the Senate gave final approval on Wednesday afternoon to broadening the government’s spy powers and providing legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the wiretapping program.
They also revealed the immense scope of crimes and abuses,
which included campaign fraud, political espionage and sabotage,
illegal break-ins, improper tax audits, illegal wiretapping on a massive scale,
and a secret slush fund laundered in Mexico to pay those
who conducted these operations.
As long as your not building a bomb or supporting terrorism I think you will be OK.
The measure, approved by a vote of 69 to 28, is the biggest revamping of federal surveillance law in 30 years.
As long as your not building a bomb or supporting terrorism I think you will be OK.
Privacy disappeared a while back. The spying has gone on a long time.Technically yes, but what about the implications of that ruling ?
This vote was about protecting the phone companies from lawsuits.
I'd hate to have been in the phone companies' position when the program started up. The government that runs the show demands that you comply. If you do, you risk the lawsuits and embarassing publicity. If you don't, who knows what the government will do to you.
This vote was about protecting the phone companies from lawsuits.
The 114-page bill was pushed through the House so quickly that there was no real time to debate its many complex provisions.
King - remember Watergate?
Also, Mark Klein blew the whistle on AT&T http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein.
He's testified that they were pulling ALL internet and phone traffic from a tap off of the AT&T backbone in SF.
Pray like hell those algorithms are perfect.
Only the Borg Are perfect
If the government came to you guys right after the bridge collapsed and told you, despite what you saw on the news, that someone may have really blown it up, and they needed some confidential employee (or forum) info right away... What would you do?I like Mexico.
True... I was being overly dismissive of the immunity provision. The thing is, I can actually see the point in that. If the government came to you guys right after the bridge collapsed and told you, despite what you saw on the news, that someone may have really blown it up, and they needed some confidential employee (or forum) info right away... What would you do?
Now that I think of it, Glynor may have ranted against that also.He tends to cover a lot of ground.
He tends to cover a lot of ground.
Unfortunately, they approached Qwest BEFORE 9/11.