Connect the ... HeadlinesMarc Nortonbyline‚ Nov. 09‚ 2007"Yahoo CEO blasted for helping China jail dissident" screams the San Francisco Chronicle -- on the first page, in a Washington Bureau special report, one of two articles above the fold, on Wednesday, November 7. Seems the Silicon Valley internet biggies turned over some email records to the Chinese government, which allowed them to identify a Chinese journalist on the outs with the powers that be there. A bipartisan group of congressmen, led by our own Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo), are all in a dither. Okay, guys, bad stuff. Then, buried on page seven, below the fold, in a Washington Post reprint, is another headline: "Former AT&T worker details federal internet spying in S.F." Seems AT&T allowed the National Security Agency (NSA), the biggest and baddest intelligence agency in world history, to build a special room at an AT&T office on Folsom Street, right here in the City by the Bay. According to a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T is sending "the entire Internet to the [NSA's] secret room... sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style... These are major pipes that carry not just AT&T's customers but everybody's." |