[Infowarrior] - FCC Won't Investigate N.S.A. on Records

[Richard Forno]

...as if anyone expected NSA to grant anyone clearances to investigatate
them right now anyway? --rf

Agency Won't Investigate N.S.A. on Records

By REUTERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/washington/24brfs-brief-008.html?_r=1&oref
=slogin&pagewanted=print

WASHINGTON, May 23 ‹ The Federal Communications Commission will not pursue
complaints about the National Security Agency's access to millions of
telephone records because it cannot obtain classified material, the
commission's chairman said in a letter released on Tuesday.

Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, had asked
regulators to investigate a report in USA Today that AT&T, Verizon and
BellSouth turned over records of phone calls to the security agency as part
of efforts to compile a database to track terrorist activities.

"The classified nature of the N.S.A.'s activities makes us unable to
investigate the alleged violations," said the commission's chairman, Kevin
Martin, a Republican, in the May 22 letter released by Mr. Markey.

Verizon and BellSouth have denied turning over the records. BellSouth has
demanded that USA Today retract the assertions.