[privacy] Fwd: Verizon Won't Give Government 'Unfettered' Record Access

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

Oye, a journalist's blog... oh well, bound to happen.

If they are receiving secret information they should expect to be
investigated. This in no way means they're a part of the data
collection we've been discussing since that has always been portrayed
as wholesale...logging (for a lack of a better word) - NOT targeted
monitoring of specific people's phone usage.

If they are being investigated then monitoring of their phone calls
can be done legally, and easily.

Again, *I* don't like that it can be done "legally", but that's been
the case for as long as the drug war has been going on. And it really
pisses me off that they can ask for my "papers" at a "NARC Check" -
and arrest me if I refuse!

On 5/15/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:58:26 CDT, you said:
> > Do you have a story to back that up?
> >
> > The stories being printed now have absolutely no effect on the
> > establishment, I can not see why they'd jeopardize this by actually
> > targeting journalists.
>
> What variety of executive-branch hubris explains this?
>
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html
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