[TomGuy]

Fifth, any telecommunications company that has provided the government with access to private information concerning the communications of Americans without a proper warrant should immediately cease and desist their complicity in this apparently illegal invasion of the privacy of American citizens.

What company(ies) are providing private information about American citizens without warrants? Any such companies would face untold liabilities.

[Cboldt]

What company(ies) are providing private information about American citizens without warrants? Any such companies would face untold liabilities.

LOL. Ummm, you might be wrong on that. Well, I take that back, it depends on what you man by "private information." But all sorts of information is granted in order to comply with orders from , e.g., FBI or other agency. See NSL's.

[Technical Editor]

Aren't they all doing it?

[kristinn]

The Washington Post did a warrantless search of Free Republic when they entered the password protected account of MD4BUSH.

[p23185]

Fifth, any telecommunications company that has provided the government with access to private information concerning the communications of Americans without a proper warrant should immediately cease and desist their complicity in this apparently illegal invasion of the privacy of American citizens. What company(ies) are providing private information about American citizens without warrants? Any such companies would face untold liabilities.

For someone who claims to have invented the Internet this guy is a moron. The NSA is not getting "taps from the telcos", they are using a "Metadata mining" operation by examining the header information on millions of digital data streams containing phone calls, e-mails, pictures, video, etc. This is being done by a massive array of supercomputers and no sentient being is doing the sifting until something pops up. No laws have been broken and no one has been "illegally wiretapped". The NSA is not a law enforcement agency and reports to Rumsfeld as part of the United State Military. All these nutcases whining about being tapped are nuts.