Banks And Credit Card Co's Assisted In NSA Spying

The domestic spying that the Bush Administration did is criminal. This is much bigger than just telcoms like AT&T and Verizon. This is bands and credit card companies. So lets get the CEOs on the record. The can of worms is just opening.

Remember Bush, McCain and all the Republicans wanted to give retro-active immunity to telcoms a few months back. All complicit, complete vile swine.

"Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice shed new light on the Bush administration's warrantless domestic spying last week when he told MSNBC that the NSA blended credit card transaction records with wiretap data to keep tabs on thousands of Americans.

But Tice didn't say where the credit card information, and other financial data, came from. Did the agency scoop it in as part of its surveillance of U.S. communications backbones, or did financial companies give up your records in bulk to the NSA?

The distinction is significant. Telecommunication companies, such as AT&T and Verizon, are embroiled in lawsuits over their alleged cooperation with the government's warrantless surveillance. If credit card companies and banks also provided information without a warrant, it's conceivable they could face a courtroom challenge as well."

According to the article, as of 2006, "Tice was saying that credit card companies and banks gave the same kind of cooperation to the government that phone companies did"

Source: Wired