Washington Post reports that Verizon Communications, says it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005.
Verizon also disclosed that the FBI using administrative subpoenas, sought information identifying not just a person making a call, but all the people that customer called, as well as the people those people called.
From January 2005 to September 2007, Verizon provided data to federal authorities on an emergency basis 720 times. In that period, Verizon turned over information a total of 94,000 times to federal authorities armed with a subpoena or court order.
The Senate Intelligence Committee could draft a bill this week that includes relief for the carriers. The administration is seeking blanket immunity, which would extend to anyone sued for assisting the government -- not just telecom carriers -- in its post-Sept. 11 surveillance programs.
Ok my fellow Americans, how much more will you allow our government to play Big Snoop?
The Bill of Rights states,
"Amendment IV: Warrants and searches.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I say NO to the Blanket Immunity for relief carriers. They need to know that if they mess up and don’t follow the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, they can and will be indicted in the court of law.
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