Looks like chimp may be using at&t to do his dirty work now days.

A former employee of AT&T claims that
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...Evidence provided by a former AT&T technician proves that the telecommunications company secretly and unlawfully opened its networks to government eavesdroppers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Thursday.

Alert readers may remember that EFF sued AT&T in January, alleging it illegally cooperated with the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping program. Then, in an odd twist last week, the Bush administration objected to EFF including some internal AT&T documents in court (the Feds claimed they might be classified).
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Thanks alot!
http://news.com.com/2060-10796_3-0.html

For months I've been reading there as they exclaim in caps:
"IF ONE HALF OF THE CALL IS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, IT'S LEGAL!!"

Well....I guess they have to ammend that to: "George Buxh can do anything he wants in a dictatorship"

This just saves them the trouble.


Democrat's calls routed through Canada: One of Bush's "foreign intercepts?"

When AT&T filed suit against Bernie Ebbers' WorldCom, this little factoid was merely icing on the cake:

AT&T's filing today also cited additional instances of domestic U.S. Government telephone calls that were routed through Canada for completion, including calls for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. On July 28, AT&T cited domestic calling traffic of several U.S. Government agencies, including the Department of State and the Postal Service, as part of the scheme to defraud AT&T and its shareowners.


Further, the AT&T filing included examples of in-state calls between the Wisconsin district offices of U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wisc.). The offices are pre-subscribed to MCI/WorldCom for long-distance calling, but calls between the offices were routed over AT&T's network after being diverted through Canada.

AT&T's filing today said MCI/WorldCom achieved the deception by:

* Separating out only the calls to the most expensive independent telephone companies, thus reducing the likelihood that the scheme would be discovered;

* Routing the calls through three intermediaries, thus hiding the fact that the calls were MCI/WorldCom's customers;

* Routing the calls through a foreign country, thus further concealing the source and setting up the next step; and

* Taking advantage of the knowledge that upon delivery to AT&T's network, MCI/WorldCom's "customer traffic commingled with literally trillions of minutes of calls on the AT&T network each year."


So much for Bush's "We don't intercept domestic-to-domestic calls" defense.

Besides, we already know that BushCo's been spying on domestic groups, like Quakers and vegans.

What's a little spying on Democrats?

More:
http://ascrivenerslament.blogspot.com/2005/12/democrats-calls-routed-through-canada.html


Also:

Telecoms let NSA spy on calls
By Leslie Cauley and John Diamond, USA TODAY
The National Security Agency has secured the cooperation of large telecommunications companies, including AT&T, MCI and Sprint, in its efforts to eavesdrop without warrants on international calls by suspected terrorists, according to seven telecommunications executives.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-05-nsa-telecoms_x.htm

Quakers, Vegans, anti-war groups,
Howard Dean
Ted Kennedy
John Kerry...

Probably anyone who would dare to wrest political power from the rightful owners of the flag.

I don't recognize my country anymore, and I'm saddened beyond anything I've ever felt before.
When I was growing up in the 60s I often wondered how kids felt who lived behind the Iron Curtain. My grandkids will know.

Now VoIP

is probably going through an AT&T router somewhere


hi George... eat shit and "i can't say cause your domestic spy-goons are reading this too"

government access to our phone calls. I refuse to pay them to let Bush spy on me. I'll do without a phone first.