Major Telecom Providers Spy for the Government

How private are your phonecalls? This article reports on the involvement of major telephone providers in citizen surveillance conducted by the U.S. government.

Role of Telecom Firms in Wiretaps Is Confirmed
New York Times
By: Eric Lichtblau
Aug. 23, 2007

"The Bush administration has confirmed for the first time that American telecommunications companies played a crucial role in the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program after asserting for more than a year that any role played by them was a “state secret”....AT&T and several other major carriers are being sued over their reported role in the program, which permitted eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of Americans suspected of terrorism ties. The administration has sought to shut down the lawsuits by invoking the state-secrets privilege, refusing even to confirm whether the companies helped conduct the wiretaps"....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/washington/24nsa.html?ref=technology