EFF suing AT&T for helping NSA illegally spy on Americans
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, 2006, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.
The lawsuit alleges AT&T has given the government unfettered access to its over 300 terabyte "Daytona" database of caller information, this is one of the largest databases in the world. By opening its network and databases to wholesale surveillance by the NSA the EFF alleges that AT&T has violated the privacy of its customers and the people they call and email, as well as broken long-standing communications privacy laws.
The lawsuit also alleges that AT&T continues to assist the government in its secret and illegal surveillance of millions of Americans. EFF, on behalf of a nationwide class of AT&T customers, is suing to stop this illegal conduct and hold AT&T responsible for its illegal collaboration in the government's domestic spying program, which has violated the law and damaged the fundamental freedoms of the American public.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Saturday, January 28, 2006
NASA Climate Expert Says Bush Tried to Silence Him
From the nytimes.com:
"The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists."
The administration is up to it's usual tricks, in this case including censorship of one our greatest scientists in an attempt to distort the public perception of important issues. In this case via unofficial phone calls laving no trail, sounds like a familiar tactic, nothing 'on the record'. These unidentified Bush administrators want the administration of NASA to control and in many cases head off the Doctors communication with the media and the public.
Thats not how science works. Science searches for the truth, and the truth is offensive to those who practice deceit.
"The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists."
The administration is up to it's usual tricks, in this case including censorship of one our greatest scientists in an attempt to distort the public perception of important issues. In this case via unofficial phone calls laving no trail, sounds like a familiar tactic, nothing 'on the record'. These unidentified Bush administrators want the administration of NASA to control and in many cases head off the Doctors communication with the media and the public.
Thats not how science works. Science searches for the truth, and the truth is offensive to those who practice deceit.
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