"Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005."-Washington Post
It seems it might be a good idea to send the CEO of Verizon ands other phone companies a copy of the Constitution and remind them what country they are in. Because they seem to feel that they are not obliged to obey it:
"Public officials, not private businessmen, must ultimately be responsible for whether the legal judgments underlying authorized surveillance activities turn out to be right or wrong -- legally or politically," wrote Wayne Watts, AT&T's senior executive vice president and general counsel. "Telecommunications carriers have a part to play in guarding against official abuses, but it is necessarily a modest one."
Since the phone companies seem to be so accommodating of the Federal Government perhaps they won't mind if the government comes and takes over their operations altogether. It's all about national security right?
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