Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete

On May 11, USA TODAY reported that the National Security Agency, with the cooperation of several of America's leading telecommunications companies, had compiled a database of domestic phone call records in an effort to monitor terrorist activity.

Several days later, BellSouth and Verizon specifically denied that they were among the companies that had contracted with the NSA to provide bulk calling records.

The denial was unexpected. USA ... Full Story »

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Richard Carlson
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by Richard Carlson - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a rather long article which says very little. It is simply congecture about which telephone companies gave what to NSA and what it means. If anything good comes out of the Bush administration snooping, it will be their only positive accomplishment. Sooner or later we will learn Choicepoint will have been payed a fortune to find an anti-war activist in Kansas City.

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