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eBay's Lobbying Efforts May Include the CIA
samuraiknight writes "The Washington Post reports that eBay was among eight entities that lobbied the CIA during the first six months of 2007, according to disclosure forms maintained by the Senate public records office. An eBay spokesman claims its listing was an error, but also notes that the company met with CIA officials in the second half of 2006 to discuss the amendments to the 1994 Communications and Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which include a requirement that VoIP companies submit to government wiretaps. The article suggests that eBay and the CIA discussed the law's potential effects on Skype (owned by eBay), but does not elaborate further."
The Washington Post reports that eBay was among eight entities that lobbied the CIA during the first six months of 2007
A+++++++++ WOULD DEFINITELY COLLUDE WITH AGAIN
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Then fucking ebay snipped me at the last second.
International calls to inside US are monitored
And with this, anyone thinking (even in dreams) something not "appropriate" can be treated as a terrorist and monitored as well.
> The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the
> Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of
> 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the
> Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown
> terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission
> and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought
> criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill
> specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and
> uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism. Amazingly, 404 of
> our elected representatives from both the Democrat and Republican
> parties voted in favor of this bill. There is little doubt that this
> bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is
> demanding the restoration of the Constitution.
Laws are actually not needed any more - it happens anyway and the president pardons everyone at the end or anything "sensitive" is declared as damaging to national security when dragged courts.
Sieg Heil America!
Umm, they were meeting to discuss an amendment which had just been voted on. So no, the requirements for VoIP operators weren't clearly laid out at that time, and in particular it was unknown whether the rules would apply only to calls which connect to the phone network or also IP-only calls.
Since when is the CIA concerned with wiretapping and listening to phone calls? Isn't that what the NSA is for?