Implementing Domestic Intelligence Surveillance

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:15 AM EDT

Article Source: fas.org

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Seeded by Aine MacDermot

Upon lawful request and for a thousand dollars, Comcast, one of the nation's leading telecommunications companies, will intercept its customers' communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Pamela Drew

The Washington Post editorialized yesterday that the telecommunications companies should indeed be immunized against liability, as the Bush Administration desires. Even though it is not known exactly what the companies did, the Post said, they "seem to us to have been acting as patriotic corporate citizens in a difficult and uncharted environment."

It's immunity for Scooter, for Blackwater, vaccine and drug makers and it's seems the logic here is that the only fair thing to do is see that the telecom giants be held harmless too. Do the Rovians who dream this up really think we aren't able to read what this stuff says? Really good seed in a bad way, %$$#@# where's the Impeachment!!

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#1 - Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:35 AM EDT

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Aine MacDermot

It's also as if the WaPo editor(s) is/are completely unaware that these "patriotic" companies were helping to spy on American citizens BEFORE 9-11. Not only is the media defending the indefensible, they don't even know WHAT they are defending ("Even though it is not known exactly what the companies did,...").

Jeebus, I'm not even a schooled Journalist (with a capital J) and I can see how wrong that is.

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#1.1 - Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:41 AM EDT

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Pamela Drew

It never ceases to amaze me that the MSM can continue to lie when so many of us know and are watching!

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2 votes

#1.2 - Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:10 PM EDT

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	Comcast charges the NSA $1,000 per wiretap	Raw Story	Tue Oct 16	1
	Comcast's law enforcement handbook leaked, could teach telecoms a thing or two	Ars Technica	Tue Oct 16	1

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