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Does Domestic Telephone Surveillance Violate Communications Act?

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Following up on May 12, 2006 posting, Info On Pentagon Phone Surveillance Program Generates Legal and Political Ramifications, see today’s press release from Rep. Ed Markey, Letter to FCC Regarding the Legality of Telco Complicity in Phone Records Mining:

  • Today Representative Markey sent a letter to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) requesting further information about whether or not the disclosure by the nation’s largest telecommunications carriers, AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth, of private consumer information to the NSA constitutes a violation of the Communications Act.”

    • Related documents and news:

  • ABC News Blotter, FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game
  • USAToday.com Poll: 51% oppose NSA database
  • USA TODAY/Gallup poll, Government Phone Records Reaction
  • CNETNews.com: GOP skepticism over NSA program widens
  • May 12, 2006 press release: Boxer Questions Phone Companies About Their Commitment to Customer Privacy After Reports of Disclosure to NSA
  • Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On the Reported Massive NSA Database of Americans’ Phone Calls, May 11, 2006
  • Related postings on domestic surveillance program

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