9/11, 9/11 - that’s why we spy on you! Except it started before 9/11.
NSA spying on your phone calls
started 6 months before 9/11.
A former Qwest Communications International
executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the
government withdrew a $200-million contract after Qwest refused to participate
in an unidentified National Security Agency program that the company’s top
lawyer said was illegal.
Former Chief Executive Joseph 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.
Nacchio’s account, which places the NSA proposal at a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, suggests that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the terrorist attacks.
How do you know George W. Bush is lying? His lips are moving.
Former Chief Executive Joseph 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.
Nacchio’s account, which places the NSA proposal at a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, suggests that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the terrorist attacks.
How do you know George W. Bush is lying? His lips are moving.
Posted: Sat - October 13, 2007 at 06:38 AM