Phone Companies May Be Liable for Tens of Billions of Dollars
So what do we do about the phone companies that have been helping King George spy on America? I never did like Bell South, but I didn't expect them to secretly hand over my phone records, as well as those of tens of millions of other ordinary Americans , to the National Security Agency.
AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, all are accomplices to Bush's Spying on America program.
"For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others."
In other words, if USA Today is correct, and if you use one of these companies, they have detailed records of all the calls you've made since late 2001.
Think Progress reports that they may be liable, big time.
"[F]or every 1 million Americans whose records were turned over to NSA, the telcos could be liable for $1 billion in penalties, plus attorneys fees."
In the meantime, I'm going to look for a new phone company. There's a related discussion over at Crooks and Liars. They're talking about switching phone companies and filing class action suits.
Something tells me the guilty three are going to be working overtime answering a lot of angry phone calls. I sent Bell South an irate email and just look at what's attached to their email form:
"Under federal law you have the right to have your records treated confidentially and BellSouth has a duty to protect that confidentiality."
It's almost funny. And Bell South is almost as good at Orwellianspeak as Bushie. Guess they just forgot to mention that little disclaimer:
Like Jack Cafferty says, if it wasn't for our dysfunctional Congress we might be headed for "a full blown dictatorship."
Gawd help us!
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