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On The Hotseat: AT&T Chairman, Ed Whitacre


Watch Ed Whitacre get grilled by Sen. Arlen Specter, (R-PA) on AT&T's enabling of the Bush domestic spying program. Make sure to watch it through to the end. Specter gets seriously pissed.

Video after the jump.

Video here.

Enjoy.


Sean-Paul Kelley June 24, 2006 - 2:18pm
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Welcome to the party

AT&T, as well as every other telephone, cable, cell phone and utility company provides billing records to state and federal child support enforcement agencies, and has for ten years.

Does this upset you?

Richard Bennett June 26, 2006 - 11:53pm
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When that information is provided under color of

a legal subpeona or legal warrant, in other words, is not in contravention of the either the spirit, intent or letter of the 4th amendment I am very, very comfortable with it. But do not for a moment come in here and try to say, "hey, it's ok because they have been doing it for years." They have not been doing THIS for more than ten years. So the question is this: why doesn't it upset you?

Bite Your Head Off

Sean-Paul Kelley June 27, 2006 - 7:09pm
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