[privacy] Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Alternate title:

"Warrantless Eavesdropping: Not Just For Anti-Terrorism Any More."

Via The New York Times.

[snip]

For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign,
including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by
top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting
companies from lawsuits for aiding the National Security Agency’s
warrantless eavesdropping program.

But the battle is really about something much bigger. At stake is the
federal government’s extensive but uneasy partnership with industry to
conduct a wide range of secret surveillance operations in fighting
terrorism and crime.

The N.S.A.’s reliance on telecommunications companies is broader and
deeper than ever before, according to government and industry officials,
yet that alliance is strained by legal worries and the fear of public
exposure.

To detect narcotics trafficking, for example, the government has been
collecting the phone records of thousands of Americans and others inside
the United States who call people in Latin America, according to several
government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the
program remains classified.

[snip]

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/washington/16nsa.html

- - ferg

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