Big Brother Is Watching (Brought To You By AT&T)- A Followup

In my last post on the story about how AT&T is cooperating with the National Security Agency in their warrantless domestic eavesdropping, I complained that this story wasn't getting more press. That appears to be changing, hopefully not just for the moment.

The following AP story was on the front page of Yahoo earlier-
AT&T, Group Challenge U.S. Spy Program

AT&T Inc. and an Internet advocacy group are waging in federal court a privacy battle that could expose the reach of the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program...

...In congressional hearings last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales suggested the president could order the NSA to listen in on purely domestic calls without first obtaining a warrant from a secret court established nearly 30 years ago to consider such issues.

Now that's good reporting.

The NSA has refused to comment. Probably too busy tracking down all the terrorist AT&T customers.

This story- not just the AT&T one specifically, but the whole Bush-authorized spying program- cannot be allowed to disappear like it's just another news story. This really is one the greatest scandals of this Presidency and something that, if people stopped to really give it some thought, would be causing great anger all over the country. Still, with the issue just floating around in recent months, a majority of Americans do currently support the Feingold censure move. Given how much civil liberties have been trashed by this administration, a "formal expression of disapproval" (as the poll correctly notes it) is the least we can do to push back.

This war isn't ending and neither will the abuses associated with it.