May 18 2006
One Telephone Company That Won’t Share Your Information
GUESTS: Becky Bond, political organizer at Working Assets, Maia Ettinger, Vice President of Legal and Customer Affairs at Working Assets.
On the May 10th 2006, USA Today reported that “The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth.” An anonymous source told the newspaper, “It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world.” President Bush defended the program saying, “We are not trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans.” Bush nominated General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA, to head the CIA. Hayden, who has stated his belief that the NSA program is legal, is testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee today to confirm his nomination. Meanwhile the ACLU’s ongoing lawsuit challenging the NSA survelleiance program has now been joined by 72 Congressmembers, as well as the President and co-founder of Working Assets Funding Services. Working Assets is a long distance corporation that describes itself as “help[ing] busy people make a difference in the world through everyday activities like talking on the phone.” They oppose the disclosure of domestic calling records to the NSA.
California Senator Diane Feinstein can be contacted at 202-224-3121.
For more information, visit www.actforchange.com, and www.workingassets.com/nsadatabase
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