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The secret room at AT&T's Folsom Street facility is in the news again. Staffers from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation are in DC this week and next, trying to convince Congress that telecoms shouldn't be given retroactive immunity for their cooperation with the NSA's secret (and illegal? or illegal-ish?) wiretapping programs.
Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who spotted the NSA's wiretapping room in the AT&T building and blew the whistle, is with the EFF crusaders in Washington, telling Congresspeople that the phone companies "committed a massive violation not only of the law but of the Constitution" (NY Times).
Our own Di-Fi disagrees, according to a story in the Chronicle today. She says the telecoms shouldn't be "dragged through the courts" when the Bush Administration is really to blame.
Hmm, well... Di-Fi and giant corporation on one side, crack team of dashing EFFers on the other... we say, "Go EFF!" (and "Hello, government surveillance types who are watching us right now").
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DiFi is just so disappointing in standing up for the constitution. She votes to confirm Mukasey and now defends the mega corps for aiding and abetting the Bush administration.
Illegal-ish? What? Maybe explain where you find a sliver of doubt about that? Because it's pretty clear that the Senate, the President, and the telecom industry don't have much. Hence, um, immunity. Right?
DiFi really sucks, and if she isn't successful maintaining her preference for telco immunity for illegal (ish? I agree with hilarie) acts, she can throw her hat into the campaign to the government be substituted as the defendant in the cases. The administration is shitting gold Twinkies over this and DiFi for some reason is getting their back on it. Who are her constituents?