Members King Kashue Posted January 10, 2008 Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 Phone Companies drop FBI wire taps for gross delinquency The audit showed that "More than half of 990 bills to pay for telecommunication surveillance in five unidentified FBI field offices were not paid on time" and that evidence was actually lost because of the disconnects... The audit also found several instances of agents pocketing money... I've only posted this once before, but hey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 10, 2008 Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 Well, it's good to see the phone company does pretty much treat everyone equal. Don't pay your bills? DISCONNECTED! NO TAPS FOR YOU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members coyote-1 Posted January 10, 2008 Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 Yep, THOSE are the ones I want protecting this nation.... The audit also found several instances of agents pocketing money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Optimus Prime Posted January 10, 2008 Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 I just did as project on how the CIA tried to use LSD for mind control in the 50s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted January 10, 2008 Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 I just did as project on how the CIA tried to use LSD for mind control in the 50s. how the hell would lsd help you controll someones mind. did the CIA get people hooked and then take it away unless the subject did what they were told:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 10, 2008 Moderators Share Posted January 10, 2008 I don't have a problem with them cutting off the taps, but is there a good excuse as to why they "lost" evidence, too? If not, I'd bring the phone company up on some charges or sue them in court for the exact amount of unpaid bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted January 10, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 I don't have a problem with them cutting off the taps, but is there a good excuse as to why they "lost" evidence, too? If not, I'd bring the phone company up on some charges or sue them in court for the exact amount of unpaid bills. Because the evidence was automatically delivered to the FBI through the phonelines that were disconnected due to the FBI being grossly delinquent in paying their bills... "We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence," according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine." Read the article maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 10, 2008 Moderators Share Posted January 10, 2008 Because the evidence was automatically delivered to the FBI through the phonelines that were disconnected due to the FBI being grossly delinquent in paying their bills... "We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence," according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine." Read the article maybe I did read the article. That's not a good enough excuse for me. If evidence was going to be lost, they needed to come up with a different way of accomplishing the goal of receiving payment. Public endangerment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted January 10, 2008 CMS Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Because the evidence was automatically delivered to the FBI through the phonelines that were disconnected due to the FBI being grossly delinquent in paying their bills... "We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence," according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine." Read the article maybe I'm curious as to how disconnecting a line results in lost evidence. It's not as if the messages/tapes are stored in the wire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted January 10, 2008 Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 How about "missed the opportunity to collect new evidence"? Naw..not provocative enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted January 10, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 I did read the article. That's not a good enough excuse for me. If evidence was going to be lost, they needed to come up with a different way of accomplishing the goal of receiving payment. Public endangerment. Disconnection comes after months of delinquency and requests for payment. It's not the phone company's job to do the FBIs job. They've got billions of dollars of tax payer money and trillions of dollars of deficit spending available to them...Write a check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 10, 2008 Moderators Share Posted January 10, 2008 Disconnection comes after months of delinquency and requests for payment. It's not the phone company's job to do the FBIs job.They've got billions of dollars of tax payer money and trillions of dollars of deficit spending available to them...Write a check.I'd agree with you except it's a wiretap situation, and you don't know who exactly is getting wiretapped or why. Neither does Ma Bell. What if they cut off a wire tap that ended up with the lost tapee causing the next 9/11? Bad form. Take it to a judge and have the judge force the past due bills to get paid promptly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted January 10, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 I'd agree with you except it's a wiretap situation, and you don't know who exactly is getting wiretapped or why. Neither does Ma Bell. What if they cut off a wire tap that ended up with the lost tapee causing the next 9/11? Bad form. Take it to a judge and have the judge force the past due bills to get paid promptly. And it's still not the Phone company's fault...If the FBI loses information because they're months delinquent on their bills and ignoring multiple warnings about impending disconnection, that's their fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super Bass Posted January 10, 2008 Members Share Posted January 10, 2008 Thats what happens when you don't pay your bills! I'd love to talk about this more but I work for a Telecomms company, ya never know who reads your stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FreestyleIntruder Posted January 11, 2008 Members Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hahahahahahaha I know this is potentially pretty serious but, still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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