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Report: Telecoms Helped NSA Wiretapping

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

The largest U.S. long-distance carriers cooperated with the National Security Agency’s wiretapping of international calls without warrants, according to a published report Monday that cited unnamed telecommunications executives and intelligence officials.

MCI, Sprint and AT&T grant access to their systems without warrants or court orders, and provide call-routing information that helps physically locate the callers, USA Today reported.

Representatives at Sprint Nextel Corp., AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., which last year acquired MCI, had no comment Monday on the newspaper’s report.

posted by Fergie @ 2/06/2006 10:54:00 AM