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Every time I think of AT&T, I think of that jingle they had back in the 1980s: “It’s the right choice - AT&T!” After today, however, I’m putting new words to that music.
“The Big Brother Choice - AT&T”
This statement comes from an attorney for AT&T, testifying in the US 9th Circuit Court, which was hearing lawsuits by people who have evidence that the government and AT&T have been collaborating to establish a massive electronic surveillance program to spy against peaceful, law-abiding Americans: “The government has said that whatever AT&T is doing with the government is a state secret. As a consequence, no evidence can come in whether the individuals’ communications were ever intercepted or whether we played any role in it.”
Oh, how convenient that AT&T does not have to officially acknowledge its involvement in the electronic spy program. Of course, if there were no such program, AT&T’s attorney could simply say so, right? That wouldn’t be a state secret.
AT&T has, for all intents and purposes, admitted that there is a massive program to spy on Americans as they use the Internet and make telephone calls, and that AT&T is helping the government to make the spy program work. Only, AT&T thumbed its nose at the judge and said that the judge didn’t have the right to know about it, and the American people didn’t have a right to know about the AT&T program to spy on Americans either.
So, AT&T is helping the government spy against their customers - even when those customers haven’t broken any law. That’s not just low down. That’s bad for business, AT&T.
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August 16th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Curious Sam are you serious. Get over it. These are different times. Don’t you know that every scrap of electronic information you send is subject to intercept and reading by whoever owns the servers or the network that carries the info.
Get off the AT&T kick. Every communications company do this and for a damn good reason. I would prefer for everyone to listen to my calls or read my emails than to have another attack on America. Where do your loyalties lie.
Heck, just to show my support I may switch my mobile service to Big Brother AT & T.
The walls have eyes.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Maximus, you, who eagerly give up your liberty for a scrap of security, deserve neither.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Maximus - you are such a dumb ass……cowards like you should crawl back to the cave…or better still go kiss bush’s ass
August 16th, 2007 at 11:04 am
And you call yourself American, Maximus?
No, not every communications company does this. People will attack America no matter what.
I am ashamed that you are a fellow countryman.
Lest you forget that this nation is founded upon freedom, I encourage you to read the Bill of Rights, in which the fifth Amendment reads “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
August 16th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
My loyalties lie with the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights. Your obviously lie more in line with Joseph Stalin. I feel I would be within my rights to make the observation that you are Un-American.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Let’s see where our loyalties of our politicians are supposed to lie. Every member of Congress takes an oath of office: “I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic…”