[Peace-discuss] Obama's perfidy on FISA

[Andrea Rice]

The Libertarians had someone from the ACLU come and speak about this a while ago, and if memory serves, we were told that there was only one company that refused to allow the government access to their records, and they were penalized by having their deals with other companies denied or delayed. Those are all probably the incorrect terms and perhaps not the exact details, but that's what I remember.

Andrea

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:06:45 -0500
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I doubt that the telecoms were "asleep at the switch" and
"failede to 
challenge the government".  The FCC and antitrust laws have significant 
impact on the telecommunications business.  It is most likely that some 
concessions were given and the telecoms participated enthusiastically as 
a result of some quid pro quo.