ACLU wants to probe phone records
A group of citizens rights complaints filed with utility commissions and attorneys in 20 countries - including Colorado - demanding that the authorities check whether the laws of phone companies broken by exchanging records of customers with the Government of the biggest spy agency.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced its “non-Spy On Me” campaign of complaints and a request that the Federal Communications Commission in Washington as the case.
In Colorado, citizens’ rights group, it said in a letter to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission and Colorado Attorney General Office.
“An immediate investigation by public bodies, Coloradans with the protection of privacy of his rights is necessary to provide clear answers on the extent of the activity, and cease immediately all offences and prosecution against Colorado law, “ACLU of Colorado Pendergrass lawyer Taylor said in a press release.
PUC spokesman Colorado Deborah Collette said the agency received the letter Wednesday.
“At this stage I have nothing to add,” she said.
Kristen Hubbell, spokeswoman for Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, said: “The Prosecutor General did not entirely the office.”
In full-page ads in eight newspapers across the country, the ACLU has invited the public to join a formal complaint, saying in bold type: “AT & T, Verizon and other telephone companies may have illegally sent to your phone Records of the National Security Agency. ”
Denver-based Qwest Communications has refused to return phone records of the NSA.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero, said in a conference call Wednesday, demanding the organization surveys oversight bodies because Congress has been “strangely silent” on the issue.
He said that the pressure of public opinion must be public servants to do their job.
Romero said the ACLU wanted to pressure the FCC and its chairman, Kevin Martin, to examine the telephone records program Martin said although the Agency does not have the power to verify the information.
President Bush and other government officials have neither confirmed nor denied a USA Today report that the NSA collects calling on the records of ordinary Americans in their willingness to recognize the plans of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations.
Besides Colorado, the ACLU said its complaints were Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont , Virginia and Washington.
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