"guilt by association" from the new AT&T

Welcome to the new AT&T.....for Mass Surveillance

"In an unusual ceremony today on the west lawn of the White House,
 President Bush officially named the telecommunication corporation
AT&T the Federal Department of Private Communication Signals.


This new department, tasked with both providing communication technology
 to American citizens AND monitoring the communications of those same
American citizens without their knowledge or consent, was given a broad
cloak of immunity from angry customers when President Bush declared
that all of it's activities were protected by National Security
and Executive Privilege.

In brief comments to reporters afterword, AT&T's chairman and CEO said,
 "It's great to be in such a unique position. We're not sure if were
a corporate entity, or part of the government. We're still discussing
what name should appear on our billing statements."

sorry, a joke., funny. well maybe no..


However...
AT&Ts Program for Mass Surveillance developed to mine gigabytes
 of the company's telephone and Internet records crunch's through
tens of millions of phone records a night to draw up what
 AT&T calls "communities of interest", calling circles that show
 who is talking to whom.


 The FBI has been requesting "communities of interest" records
 from all the phone companies under the USA PATRIOT Act without a warrant.
Records on customers out to two generations, not just the people that
communicated with an FBI target, but also those who talked to people
 who talked to an FBI target.


Accused of giving the NSA billions of Americans' phone records
AT&T is currently defending itself in federal court from allegations
 that it installed, on behalf of the NSA, secret Internet spying rooms
 in its domestic Internet switching facilities.


You said you didn't do anything wrong
 well nether did some people in Germany
back in 1939. whose only "crime".........

Don't worry, you don't have to.
The powers that be just have to think you did, or just call someone
 who did, or if they know or called someone who did.
Personally I think you did

 "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company" Lilly Tomlin

If AT&T is using software to help the u.s. government spy on us,
 than this is what corporatism (fascism) looks like.
There couldn't be a clearer example than this.


Don't worry it's probably all just for surveillance purposes.
Form the government you must trust blindly and never question
 if you know whats good for you.