I've sure you know that congress and the white house is involved in an epic battle on retroactive immunity to telecom's for the warrantless wiretaps. The white house, congress and the media always portrays this immunity for actions after 9/11. But did ya'll know this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202485.html?hpid=topnewsFormer CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm
Qwest Feared NSA Plan Was Illegal, Filing Says
By Ellen Nakashima and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 13, 2007; Page A01
A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Agency program that the company thought might be illegal.
Former chief executive Joseph P. Nacchio, convicted in April of 19 counts of insider trading, said the NSA approached Qwest
more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to court documents unsealed in Denver this week.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abIV0cO64zJE&referSpy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say
By Andrew Harris
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site
seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.
Of course, that retroactive immunity would cover these actions also. I wonder why the guvermint needed to do this months before 9/11
It almost makes you think they were *anticipating* a *Pearl Harbor* kind of an event.
