Big Brother is watching you: As A Reminder, AT&T, Verizon And Others Have Been Providing NSA With Phone Records Since 2001

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-06/reminder-att-verizon-and-others-have-been-providing-nsa-phone-records-2001

 

 

As A Reminder, AT&T, Verizon And Others Have Been Providing NSA With Phone Records Since 2001

 

 

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/06/2013 10:31 -0400

 

Department of Justice Verizon

 

 

When it comes to events from the recent "for the collective good" history, America appears to have a very short memory. Because if it could remember further back than just 15 (milli)seconds, it would recall this USA Today front page from May 11, 2006:

 

 

 

 

 

To summarize:

 

On May 11, 2006, USA Today published an article reporting that AT&T, Verizon, and Bellsouth had been providing the NSA with the telephone records of “tens of millions of Americans” since shortly after September 11, 2001. Called “the largest database ever assembled in the world” by the newspaper’s source, its purported goal was to “‘create a database of every call ever made’ within the nation’s borders.”

Back then everyone denied everything.

 

Although it was not implicated in the story, Qwest, a teleco that operates primarily in the West and Northwest, quickly stated that it had not participated in the NSA program. Shortly thereafter, both BellSouth and Verizon also denied involvement. BellSouth demanded that USA Today state for the record that it had not been involved with the NSA. Eventually, on June 30, 2006, USA Today withdrew the story as it applied to Verizon and BellSouth... Unlike BellSouth and Verizon, AT&T neither confirmed nor denied assisting the NSA, asserting that the U.S. Department of Justice said discussing the program would harm national security

Good - so we now know Verizon was lying and AT&T was and likely still continues to cooperate with the NSA. Any questions?

 

So - once again - what exactly is the news? That Americans are being spied upon? This has been the case for the past 12 years!

 

Oh, we know - it must is the "stunning" realization that the person who created the following morphed photo actually knew what they were doing. (CLICK ON LINK TO SEE)

 

[10 YEARS LATER]

Big Brother has climbed so far up our Rump it's gonna take a Rotor Rooter Plumbers' Snake to sort this out.

 

Let's start with the Head of Snake. We all know who the Puppet Masters' Puppet is, now don't we.

 

Damn these people.

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NYT: OBAMA ADMIN 'HAS NOW LOST ALL CREDIBILITY'

by BEN SHAPIRO 6 Jun 2013, 1:25 PM PDT 

On Thursday, The New York Times officially fell off the Obama bandwagon. That doesn’t mean the Obama worship will stop. But the newest revelation that the Obama administration has been seizing millions of phone records leaves the Times with little choice but to publicly chastise its dream president.

 

 

“Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it,” writes the Times editorial board. “There is every reason to believe the federal government has been collecting every bit of information about every American’s phone calls except the words actually exchanged in those calls …. Essentially, the administration is saying that without any individual suspicion of wrongdoing, the government is allowed to know who Americans are calling every time they make a phone call, for how long they talk and from where.”

 

 

The Times editorial board noted, “The administration has now lost all credibility.”

 

 

Sadly, the Times is only willing to say this after election cycles end. Good thing they were there to defend us from Mitt Romney’s car elevator and Ann Romney’s horses, though.

 

 

Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).