The Bush Administration Admits to Spying on Tens of Millions of Phone Calls Made By Innocent Americans, and Wants to Spy on “Every Call Ever Made:”
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren’t suspected of any crime.
…”It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world,” said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA’s activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency’s goal is “to create a database of every call ever made” within the nation’s borders, this person added.
For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others. The three telecommunications companies are working under contract with the NSA.
BUSH LIED YET AGAIN:
Bush insisted that the NSA was focused exclusively on international calls. “In other words,” Bush explained, “one end of the communication must be outside the United States.”
As a result, domestic call records — those of calls that originate and terminate within U.S. borders — were believed to be private.
Sources, however, say that is not the case.
Are You Mad? Are You Steamed? Are You Boiling In Righteous Indignation?
Well, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Take these actions:
1. Click here to find out how to call your Representative and your two Senators. Then call them, and demand to know exactly what they plan to do to A) end this program and B) hold the Bush administration accountable for their illegal, unconstitutional behavior.
2. Contact Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth corporate offices, and ask them A) for a direct apology for betraying your privacy, B) a timetable for the end of their participation in the program and, if you are a consumer, C) a refund.
- Verizon Online Contact Form
- Email AT&T Corporate Issues Representatives Larry Solomon and Matthew Coe, plus Federal Regulatory & Legislative Representative Mike Balmoris
- BellSouth Community Involvement Contact Form
