I'm not sure why this story hasn't burst through into the mainstream, beyond Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Apparently, the Bush Administration was asking the telecommunications companies to spy domestically before 9/11.
This story, if borne out, means that the administration has been lying. Over and over and over again.
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Congress suckered on surveillance. Telco immunity, next?
This is something that's now being whispered in nearly every conversation on the subject, but might as well be repeated here: the filings in the appeal of former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's insider trading case reveal that the Bush "administration" was pressuring telecommunications companies to cooperate in a massive domestic spying operation well before 9/11. [snip]
So here's the key. The domestic spying has always been justified by saying it was a necessary response to 9/11. But clearly there's damned good reason to believe these programs were conceived and initiated well before the September 11th attacks.
That would mean -- gasp! -- that your "government" is full of it. . .
Read the rest at: DailyKos.com
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