Thursday, October 11, 2007

Documents: Qwest Was Targeted Because of Spying Refusal

Sara Burnett and Jeff Smith write in The Rocky Mountain News:

The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.

The documents indicate that likely would have been at the heart of former CEO Joe Nacchio's so-called "classified information" defense at his insider trading trial, had he been allowed to present it.

More here.

(Props, Pogo Was Right.)

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