Raw Story has posted a letter from Feingold and Kennedy demanding answers from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon regarding the NSA wiretapping.
The letter writes:
We believe that understanding your company's participation in the NSA's domestic surveillance program is critical to congressional oversight efforts. Please provide all relevant information and records on the following topics for the period September 11, 2001, to the present:
1. Have government officials requested your company's cooperation, either in writing or orally, in conducting surveillance of communications in the United States without a court order under the Wiretap Act or FISA, other than requests explicitly stating that they were authorized under the emergency provisions of those Acts? If so, what are the names of those government officials? Please provide the dates of all such requests and subsequent contacts. If any requests have been made in writing, please provide copies of those written requests. If the requests were made orally, please provide a detailed description of the requests.
2. In each of these instances, did any government official provide you with "a certification in writing ... that no warrant or court order is required by law, that all statutory requirements have been met, and that the specified assistance is required," as set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(a)(ii)?
3. If anyone from or on behalf of the federal government informed you that it was not necessary to meet the requirements of that section, please provide a detailed description of any such communication, including all persons involved and all documents reflecting or describing such communication.
4. What was the response of your company to these requests? If the response was in writing, please provide copies of all relevant documents. If the response was oral, please provide the dates on which the response was made, the identity of those in your company responding to government requests, and a full description of the response.
5. How many communications and individuals were intercepted, covered, monitored or otherwise subjected to any form of surveillance in response to these requests? Please provide the dates on which these actions were taken.
6. Is cooperation with government officials with regard to this matter ongoing?
7. Were you asked to perform or permit any actions that conflict with your tariffs, your customer agreements, or any provisions of federal or state law, or would so conflict if your own employees did so? Please provide a detailed description of any such requests, including all persons involved and all documents reflecting or describing such requests.