(“Reuters” via “Der Spiegel”)
To think I used to be worried. Admittedly I am a little paranoid and I tend to see dark forces at work whenever I am having trouble posting or the phone connection sounds slightly strange. But now I know, it is probably not the FBI…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A telephone company cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to pay its bill on time, according to a U.S. government audit released on Thursday.
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“Late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence, including an instance where delivery of intercept information required by a … FISA order was halted due to untimely payment,” the audit said.
Now I feel safer!
1 Comment
January 11, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Putting one’s faith in the ‘market’ to look after everything, including the Constitution might be risky?