Friday, May 12, 2006

Top Ten Cloves: Ways AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. Will Justify Giving Phone Records To NSA

News Item: Data on Phone Calls Monitored

10. Government lawyers told them they were catching up on paperwork and that the numbers were just going to be added to the “Do Not Call” registry

9. Was working with the Bush Administration, as an elaborate ruse, to see who in NSA is leaking to NY Times and Washington Post

8. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said he had it covered, with the Torture Memo policies he wrote

7. Got the NSA to agree not to monitor anyone during the dinner hour

6. You think gasoline prices are high, wait until you see our rates, once this program is over

5. Will claim Bush Administration gave them the “You’re Either With Us, or Against Us” speech

4. Verizon’s “Entire Network” Television Campaign takes on a whole new meaning

3. Just a new roll out of their “Friends, Family and Government” plan

2. President Bush personally told them he had it covered with a Signing Statement

1. We were duped! Should have picked up on the letterhead – “By Order of the FISH Court”, not “FISA Court









The telephone companies involved in President Bush's Domestic Spying Program said in a joint statement today that it was only "the great progress the President is making in Iraq" that led them to go along with gving the NSA tens-of-millions of U.S. Citizen's telephone numbers

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