Verizon Lying? - depends on the definition of "give"?

[petardier]

Verizon's denial that they've given customer data to the NSA may just be a matter of semantics. If they have left a door open so that the NSA could, in effect, walk in and copy everything they wanted, it amounts to giving it to the NSA.

More here:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/05/after-five-days-of-silence-verizon.html

Oh, then there's this little gem. The president has delegated to the Director of National Intelligence the ability to allow companies to ignore SEC reporting rules. What does that mean? It could mean that Verizon and the other telcos can legally keep any payments the goverment has given them for wiretapping expenses off the books.

More details here:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/05/17/calls/index.html

Comments

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to say it, but it osunds like only vile avaricious lawyers can help us now.
Retroactively declaring that something is legal, don't make it so.

And where's the press to decry this rampant criminality?
Maybe Karl Rove is sitting on their hands...