Working Assets: Hang up on NSA's Accomplices: AT&T, Verizon, and Bell South

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Working Assets is Defending You Against NSA and its Big Telecom Accomplices

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*WORKING ASSETS ISSUES UPDATE: May 12, 2006*

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*Take Action -- Demand Answers on Illegal Domestic Spying*

 

 

Tell your Representative in Congress you want some answers -- under oath --

about the telecom companies' cooperation with the NSA's illegal domestic

wiretapping program.

 

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*A Message From Working Assets' President *

 

In light of new revelations about the big telecommunications carriers'

handing over domestic calling records to the National Security Agency, I am

writing to let you know where Working Assets stands on the NSA's

increasingly alarming activities.

 

Working Assets believes that the warrantless monitoring of phone

conversations ordered by the Bush administration is illegal and

unacceptable. We also unequivocally oppose the disclosure of domestic

calling records to the NSA by our nation's telecommunications providers. As

reported yesterday in USA

 

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AT & T, Bell South and Verizon sold customer call records to the NSA. Working

Assets would never, under any circumstances, give (let alone sell) records

to the Bush administration without a warrant or court order.

 

In fact, as Working Assets' President, I recently signed

on<http://values.workingassets.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/hm5o0IcQLP0TJ70BGOs0Ev>to

an amicus brief supporting the ACLU's law suit against the National

Security Agency. We are the only telephone company participating in this

lawsuit.

 

Working Assets has never been approached by any government agency seeking

our help in illegally accessing the content of conversations by our

customers, and we would refuse any such request. We are actively engaged in

opposing warrantless monitoring, in pushing for full disclosure by the

government regarding the scope of the monitoring, and in protecting citizens

from intrusive and illegal exercises of governmental power. Additionally, we

are

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nomination of General Michael V. Hayden, the architect of the NSA's

illegal wiretapping program, to head the CIA.

 

If you are a member of AT & T (including Cingular and SBC), Bell South or

Verizon, your telecom company willingly sold the private telephone records

of American citizens to the Bush administration's illegal domestic spying

operation. Please contact your provider now, and let them know that this is

simply unacceptable.

 

- Contact AT & T: http://www.consumer.att.com/contact?source=body

- Contact Verizon: http://www22.verizon.com/CustomerSupport/ContactUs/

- Contact BellSouth: http://www.bellsouth.com/contactus/index.html

 

You can also find out more about Working Assets Wireless and Working Assets

Long Distance at http://www.workingassets.com.

 

You may also be interested in a new book we are publishing, entitled *How

Would A Patriot Act?*, a compelling analysis of how the NSA's wiretapping

fits into a larger scheme by the Bush Administration to violate

Constitutional restrictions on executive authority in an unprecedented

manner. Click here to find out more about the

book<http://values.workingassets.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/hm5o0IcQLP0TJ70BGOu0Ex>.

 

 

As a telecommunications company, it is our special privilege to facilitate

communications among our fellow citizens, to enable conversations on matters

personal, commercial, social and political. It is therefore our special

obligation to oppose warrantless interference into those communications,

whatever the government's justification may be. We will keep you posted on

new developments as they arise.

 

*Thank you* for your ongoing support.

 

Michael Kieschnick, President

Working Assets <http://www.workingassets.com/>

 

 

1) USA Today: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone

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