Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_operating_company If you
check the map that accompanies this article all of the potential
traitors and terrorists live in the following states: California,
Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. Possibly less the Cincinnati
area where, IICI, Cincinnati Bell reigns or rings.

Quest, Bell South and Verizon do not cooperate with the NSA data
mining so it is safe to live in an area which they serve. Maybe this
was the secret part since the 9/11 hijackers lived in Florida, Arizona
and California, all states outside the ATT service area.

Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete
Updated 6/30/2006 8:51 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees
confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive
database of domestic phone call records. But some lawmakers also say
that cooperation by the nation's telecommunication companies was not as
extensive as first reported by USA TODAY on May 11.

Several lawmakers, briefed in secret by intelligence officials about
the program after the story was published, described a call records
database that is enormous but incomplete. Most asked that they not be
identified by name, and many offered only limited responses to
questions, citing national security concerns.

In the May 11 article that revealed the database, USA TODAY reported
that its sources said AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon had agreed to provide
the NSA with call records.

AT&T, which is the nation's largest telecommunications company,
providing service to tens of millions of Americans, hasn't confirmed or
denied its participation with the database. BellSouth and Verizon have
denied that they contracted with the NSA to turn over phone records. On
May 12, an attorney for former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio confirmed the
USA TODAY report that Qwest had declined to participate in the NSA
program.

AT&T, asked to comment, issued a written statement Thursday. "The U.S.
Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither confirm nor deny
AT&T's participation in the alleged NSA program because doing so would
cause 'exceptionally grave harm to national security' and would violate
both civil and criminal statutes," it said. "Under these circumstances,
AT&T is not able to respond to such allegations."

·Five members of the intelligence committees said they were told that
BellSouth did not turn over domestic call records to the NSA.

·Three lawmakers said that they had been told that Verizon did not
turn over call records to the NSA. However, those three and another
lawmaker said MCI, the long-distance carrier that Verizon acquired in
January, did provide call records to the government.

While Verizon has denied providing call records to the NSA, it has
declined to comment on whether MCI participated in the calls database
program.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-30-nsa_x.htm

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