Will the Real ‘Big Brother’ Please Stand Up…

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2006 When the government can't legally dig up your medical records, call histories and voter registration information, it turns to the data mining company ChoicePoint--which has sucked up over $1 billion in federal contracts. Do. Not. Miss. this article on how the frightening industry of data mining works. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Has AT&T Sent Out the Most Ironic Mailer Ever?

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2006 You won't believe the envelope that the phone company has apparently been sending out. If it's not a hoax, the irony is so thick that not even an NSA eavesdropper could penetrate it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart Takes On the NSA

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2006 "The Daily Show" host tees off on the recent report of the NSA's phone call database. "It turns out that there was one specific type of domestic call the government was keeping tabs on. All of them." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BellSouth: We Didn’t Give Data to NSA

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 The phone company says that, despite the claims made in the USA Today story, it never provided phone records to the NSA. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Powell – NSA Man

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Poll: Majority Disapprove of NSA Database

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 The vast American populace can't always be counted upon to show good sense, but in this case, at least, vox populi has gotten it right. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Don’t Believe the Flawed NSA-Spying Poll

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 The Washington Post loaded a poll so it would appear that most Americans support the NSA's phone record collection program. Blogger Jane Hamsher did the original analysis on this sloppy poll, and Buzzflash sums it up. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Verizon Hit By Two Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuits

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 The telecom giant faces two suits--one for $20 billion, another for $5 billion--for handing over customers' phone records to the NSA. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Wag the Dog?

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 President Bush will deliver a rare (for him) television address, a Monday night talk on immigration reform. Is it too cynical to ask whether he's wagging the dog to distract attention from the NSA phone record issue? Is it possible to be too cynical about Bush's motives? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Watching What You Say

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2006 Before the USA Today story, The Nation magazine had loads of details on the NSA-telecom spying program: a lawsuit against AT&T; links between telecom officials and the White House; and a history of how these insidious relationships developed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

N.Y. Times: Bush’s Ever-Expanding Secret

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2006 The Sept. 11 attacks "did not give the president the limitless power he now claims to intrude on the private communications of the American people," the N.Y. Times says in an editorial about the NSA spying story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Claims NSA Program Targets Only Al Qaeda

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2006 The president claims that the program activities "strictly target Al Qaeda and their known affiliates," despite USA Today's claim that the NSA has pored over the records of tens of millions of Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )