US national Big Brother edition, NSA sponsored
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Huh oh. Or should we say: Huh already?!… Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, former boss of the National Security Agency (NSA) and very recently promoted as the new director of the CIA, already impacts the medias.
USA Today revealed that the NSA detains billions of records of domestic telephone calls. Major telcos and cablecos AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth have turned over records of calls and that is the NSA’s goal “to create a database of every call ever made (sic)”.
According to multiple sources, only Qwest stepped out because it was uneasy about the legal implications of handing over customer information to the government without warrants.
Technorati indicates that the “NSA” tag scored third of the most requested daily tag list. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) also filed suit against AT&T for alleged wholesale delivery of phone and Internet data to the NSA without any judicial oversight. It’s the very same AT&T that recently announced an extension of broadband Internet to rural zones via satellite connection.
Do you think this could lower Bush’s popularity, currently down to 32%? Do you plan to subscribe some offer from Qwest? You could write it down, we won’t bring them to anybody.
UPDATE (May 12, 2006) — According to a new ABC poll, 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism, including 44 percent who strongly endorsed the effort.
May 12, 2006 | By Nuno
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