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There is more to be concerned about than that

Does the name WHITACRE ring a bell

He was CEO of AT
Although the legal department at AT advised Whitacre not to comply with the Bush administration request for customer phone records, Whitacre turned the records over

This guy is a government lap dog

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.
AT recently merged with SBC and kept the AT name. Verizon, BellSouth and AT are the nation's three biggest telecommunications companies; they provide local and wireless phone service to more than 200 million customers
Among the big telecommunications companies, only Qwest has refused to help the NSA, the sources said. According to multiple sources, Qwest declined to participate because it was uneasy about the legal implications of handing over customer information to the government without warrants.

AT, when asked about the program, replied with a comment prepared for USA TODAY: "We do not comment on matters of national security, except to say that we only assist law enforcement and government agencies charged with protecting national security in strict accordance with the law."
he following month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, filed a class-action lawsuit against AT The lawsuit accuses the company of helping the NSA spy on U.S. phone customers.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10...

Remember Whitacre now?

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