
Companies helped U.S spy agency: report CBC \|\| December 25, 2005 Huge volumes of e-mails and phone calls in the United States have been scanned without court orders with help from telecommunications companies, according to a published report. A former technology manager at a major telecommunications firm told the New York Times that since the Sept. 11 attacks, the leading companies in the industry have been storing information on calling patterns and giving it to the U.S. government. Technicians with the National Security Agency have combed through large volumes of phone and internet traffic in search of patterns that might point to terrorism suspects. Some officials have described the program as a large data-mining operation, the paper said. The Times did not name any of the companies who have been dealing with the classified program. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com The paper said the scope of the domestic spying is much broader than what's already been acknowledged by the White House. President George W. Bush has claimed that his executive order allowing the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al-Qaeda. Both Democratic and Republican critics have said NSA eavesdropping violates privacy rights. Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department sent a letter to key congressional leaders this week defending the program. "There is undeniably an important and legitimate privacy interest at stake," the letter said. "That must be balanced, however, against the government's compelling interest in the security of the nation." About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Companies helped U.S spy agency: report

CBC || December 25, 2005

Huge volumes of e-mails and phone calls in the United States have been scanned without court orders with help from telecommunications companies, according to a published report.

A former technology manager at a major telecommunications firm told the New York Times that since the Sept. 11 attacks, the leading companies in the industry have been storing information on calling patterns and giving it to the U.S. government.

Technicians with the National Security Agency have combed through large volumes of phone and internet traffic in search of patterns that might point to terrorism suspects.

Some officials have described the program as a large data-mining operation, the paper said.

The Times did not name any of the companies who have been dealing with the classified program.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

The paper said the scope of the domestic spying is much broader than what's already been acknowledged by the White House.

President George W. Bush has claimed that his executive order allowing the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al-Qaeda.

Both Democratic and Republican critics have said NSA eavesdropping violates privacy rights.

Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department sent a letter to key congressional leaders this week defending the program.

"There is undeniably an important and legitimate privacy interest at stake," the letter said. "That must be balanced, however, against the government's compelling interest in the security of the nation."

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