[Eug-lug] Fwd: Qwest files to deregulate phone rates

[Michael Miller]

I don't think Joseph Nacchio has a leg to stand on.  I also don't
believe what a convicted felon says.  Why has he not said this before?
 That would have been a great distraction about five years ago when he
was being investigated.  Mr Nacchio was convicted for insider trading.
  The same thing Martha Stewart was convicted of in 2004.  Personally
I have no problems with the call detail records that the NSA asked
for.  First off they are just records on what phone numbers people
called and how long they talked do another number.  No personal
identifying information at all.  If they needed to know who that phone
number belonged to they would have to go though the courts to get the
billing information. The analysis the NSA was doing is the same
analysis the phone companies do to catch phone toll fraud.  Except in
this case the NSA was doing it to find people who will cause harm to
United States citizens.  I could speculate on why Qwest did not turn
over the records but that would be speculation.


-Miller

On 10/29/07, larry price <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/07, dooger watts <mikemcoo at efn.org> wrote:
> > Except they are one of the few phone providers in amerika who refused to
> > turn over phone records to the NSA when boosh first started his witch hunt.
>
> A number of people suggested that their refusal to cooperate was more
> an inability, technically.
>
> Boy, were we wrong.
>
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/nsa-asked-for-p.html
>
> What does it say about our country when we are more surprised that a
> CEO didn't sell his customers out to the government in an extra-legal
> maneuver that could have netted him lucrative contracts than that he
> stood up (and got nailed on a set of charges so abstruse that no one
> who isn't an accountant and a lawyer could possibly understand whether
> or not a crime took place)
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