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Qwest Rebuffed NSA Because Data Mining Operation Violated Federal Law

The telecommunications company Qwest turned down requests by the National Security Agency for private telephone records because it concluded that doing so would violate federal privacy laws, a lawyer for the telephone company’s former chief executive said today. ~The New York Times Just to add to the fun, in the legalese of one of Qwest’s […]

The telecommunications company Qwest turned down requests by the National Security Agency for private telephone records because it concluded that doing so would violate federal privacy laws, a lawyer for the telephone company’s former chief executive said today. ~The New York Times

Just to add to the fun, in the legalese of one of Qwest’s lawyers there was a “disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any legal process.” I imagine there was. Eespecially if the project was illegal. But that line has a pretty good chance of equalling Al Gore’s “no controlling legal authority” line for conveying the arrogant illegal behaviour of this administration.

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