Comment: Re:What would happen if they defied the order? (Score 1) 135
You dont think at least one US telco had the leadership and legal insight to look at what the NSA requested and saw many legal questions?
http://au.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6
Note what happens to the person if you say just say yes or ....
Lawyers and lots of money will not save a person from a ~80-90+% US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
http://cryptome.org/mayer-016.pdf
ie you dont start with questions about warrant or subpoena, criminal activity?
"...to assert that its wireless, wireline and internet businesses gave no customer phone records or call data to the NSA.""
Terms like "Call Monitoring Center for the Exclusive Use of the NSA."
"The NSA program was initially conceived at least one year prior to 2001"
Would you like your brand linked into something called "Groundbreaker Enterprise System"?
How long do you think you can hold out for warrants issued by a court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or an opinion of the Attorney General holding that any program your telco enters into is lawful?
http://au.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6
Note what happens to the person if you say just say yes or
Lawyers and lots of money will not save a person from a ~80-90+% US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
http://cryptome.org/mayer-016.pdf
ie you dont start with questions about warrant or subpoena, criminal activity?
"...to assert that its wireless, wireline and internet businesses gave no customer phone records or call data to the NSA.""
Terms like "Call Monitoring Center for the Exclusive Use of the NSA."
"The NSA program was initially conceived at least one year prior to 2001"
Would you like your brand linked into something called "Groundbreaker Enterprise System"?
How long do you think you can hold out for warrants issued by a court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or an opinion of the Attorney General holding that any program your telco enters into is lawful?