Maine filing seeks answers from Verizon

[jpak]

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060513puc.shtml

A complaint asking the Maine Public Utilities Commission to investigate whether Verizon handed over telephone records to the National Security Agency could be the first of many similar actions taken in other states.

The Maine complaint was filed just days before USA Today reported that the NSA was collecting and analyzing the phone call records of hundreds of millions of Americans.

Now groups in other states, including state chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union, are considering asking their state regulators to determine the extent to which telephone companies assisted the NSA. They are reviewing the Maine filing as a resource.

"ACLU offices around the country are receiving a torrent of phone calls from angry Americans. This has really struck a nerve," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project. "I think there's going to be a real groundswell of activity at the local and state level."

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(and Dirigo!)

[mom cat]

1. Way to go Mainiacs!

:yourock:

[Rainscents]

2. When you really pissed off "We The People"

We The People are going to wake up one day and come after with pitch fork!

[peacetalksforall]

3. Everything is this artlicle must be a mistake because it would appear to

represent more than 60% of the people and Republican poll releases would never contain lies or distortions.

[gatlingforme]

4. cancel verizon contracts, or boycott the assholes. it's the consumer

who has the last say. money talks