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FCC Chief Won't Probe NSA Call Program

Fuckers. What a bullshit excuse.

This is infuriating. This is certainly not the first time that the FCC has decided to not get involved (or rather, to put forth regulations instead) due to it's political inclinations. This is complete bullshit.

People, it is apparent that this administration _will_not_do_ the will of the people.

We, The People, have been betrayed. Vote these traitors out of office in November.

Jeremy Pelofsky writes for Reuters:

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will not pursue complaints about a spy agency's access to millions of telephone records because it cannot obtain classified material, the FCC's chairman said in a letter released on Tuesday.

Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, had asked communications regulators to investigate a newspaper report that AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications and BellSouth Corp. gave access to and turned over call records to help the National Security Agency fight terrorists.

"The classified nature of the NSA's activities makes us unable to investigate the alleged violations," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in the May 22 letter to Markey.

posted by Fergie @ 5/23/2006 04:08:00 PM