Archive for May 11th, 2006
Step 2: Your phone records and bills become classified information. EVEN FROM YOU!
by Administrator on May.11, 2006, under Uncategorized
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush said Thursday the government is "not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans" with a reported program to create a massive database of U.S. phone calls.
"The privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities," Bush said in a statement he read to reporters at the White House. "Our efforts are focused on links to al Qaeda and their known affiliates." (Transcript of Bush’s statement)
Bush’s comments followed a USA Today report Thursday that telecommunications giants AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon have provided the National Security Agency with billions of records of domestic phone calls beginning shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001. (Read what the reporter who broke the story says)
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