Former Phone Chief Says Spy Agency Sought Surveillance Help Before 9/11 - New York Times

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/business/14qwest.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


The phone company Qwest Communications refused a proposal from the  
National Security Agency that the company’s lawyers considered  
illegal in February 2001, nearly seven months before the terrorist  
attacks on Sept. 11, the former head of the company contends in newly  
unsealed court filings.

The executive, Joseph P. Nacchio, also asserts in the filings that  
the agency retaliated by depriving Qwest of lucrative outsourcing  
contracts.

The filings were made as Mr. Nacchio fought charges of insider  
trading. He was ultimately convicted in April of 19 counts of insider  
trading and has been sentenced to six years in prison. He remains  
free while appealing the conviction.



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