Drone: Throwing Telcos Under The Bus To Protect Bushies
By Frank Naif on February 18, 2008 at 9:48 AM in Current Affairs, FISA, Frank Naif, Intelligence, Nat'l Security Drone, U.S. Constitution
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Well done, Frank - as always.
I spoke recently with my friend George who was in charge of network administration for Sprint who is now retired about wiretapping. He said in the old days they wouldnt do squat without a court order. However when everything switched over to fiber optics he was called one day by his boss to inform him that the FBI wanted access to some of the fiber optic lines. George said “Wheres their court order? His boss said they dont have one, they are just going to run some experiments with some new technology.” Of course Sprint cooperated but they had no idea or any control of what the FBI was doing.
That was in 1986 just 2 years after the famous big brother bench mark of 1984.
Makes you wonder doesnt it.
Yes it does Bill, thanks for sharing this.
At the time most legislation was designed to address the prior communications technology.
That was their loophole.
Kind of like how HGH wasn’t listed as a ‘banned substance’ in sports Leagues agreements and regulations so it wasn’t technically a steroid.
The spying being done now, when new technology was fully codified to law on various regulatory agencies and the accompanied awarded frequencies, well it’s spying on some major steroids.
No, those of you pro athletes reading this, don’t sweat that final statement. It’s comparable to spying on steroids, not actually “spying on steroids”, unless you want to appear before committee….
You could have one on telecomm immunity showing Ma Bell hooking terrirsts up to old crank generators for the first phones.
Might be why Bush has done that immunity dance for one particular company lobby on the vendors list….
A bunch of lawsuits are only going to make this private info. more likely to reach the public. I can guarantee you that the press will want it.
I’d prefer clear guidelines calling for criminal prosecution (if done knowingly) and civil penalties if any private info. is released going forward - even if it was previously collected info.
Chicken Hawk down…
Great stuff Frank
Reminds me of that great scene in the WWI movie, “Paths of Glory” (1957). The French General in command of an offensive gets on the telephone and orders the officer at the artillery position to shell the French soldiers who retired to their own trenches and are refusing to attack again. The officer knows that the General will deny the verbal order later, so he insists upon getting it in writing before he opens fire–knowing that this is impossible. The General insists that the officer has his word of honor that he’ll back him up later. The officer cleverly insists that if the General is killed later his word of honor will be worthless, so he ain’t gonna shell his own troops! The moral is, never let yourself get put into the position of doing something you know is wrong based on the word of honor of someone you can’t trust.
Damn Frank. We’re talking ROFLMAO quality here. Go have a scotch on me.