{"id":211,"date":"2007-10-16T08:53:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2007-10-16T08:53:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T15:53:16","slug":"20071016-phone-companies-refuse-to-give-congress-data-on-spy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/16\/20071016-phone-companies-refuse-to-give-congress-data-on-spy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/10\/16 Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dun dun duh&#8230;.. this article from slashdot.org is probably what some people need to hear about&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article\" id=\"art2\">\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3> \t\t\t<span><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/\">Your Rights Online<\/a>:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/07\/10\/16\/1313233.shtml\">Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Journal written by <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EJohNNy1%2B4\/journal\/\">JohNNy1+4 (1174329)<\/a> and posted by  \t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EZonk\/\">Zonk<\/a>  \ton Tuesday October 16, @11:22AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>would-be-unamerican<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=158\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\tJohNNy1+4 writes <em>&#8220;Several US telephone communications firms are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&amp;sid=aayJQwEy8Xw4&amp;refer=politics\">refusing to answer the questions of a congressional panel<\/a> about spying on American citizens. The panel is making an inquiry into Bush administration tactics in the years since 2001, but has been stymied by the administration&#8217;s claim that releasing that information would be illegal. As a result Verizon, AT&amp;T, and Qwest have declined to answer the panel&#8217;s queries. &#8216;&#8221;Our company essentially finds itself caught in the middle of an oversight dispute between the Congress and the executive relating to government surveillance activities,&#8221; AT&amp;T Inc. General Counsel Wayne Watts said in a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee that was released today by the panel.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dun dun duh&#8230;.. this article from slashdot.org is probably what some people need to hear about&#8221; Your Rights Online: Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program Journal written by JohNNy1+4 (1174329) and posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 16, @11:22AM from the would-be-unamerican dept. JohNNy1+4 writes &#8220;Several US telephone communications firms are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}