Qwest and the NSA are owned by the same people.
From Avedon Carol, with a couple of extra links tossed in to fill out the picture:
A little googling found this: An overlooked story makes more sense now: The Carlyle Group and Welsh Carson Close Qwest Dex East Deal [thecarlylegroup.com , 01/02/03] Formerly thought to be benign, this transaction provides Carlyle with personal and business data profitable for re-selling to Poindexter's Total Information Awareness System "The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe today closed the first part - Dex East - of their purchase of Qwest Communications' yellow page directories business."
So, before you switch to Qwest as your telco, you might want to do a little more research.
Thus, we are grateful to Atrios for recommending the provider he says he's been happy with for years, Working Assets, the only telephone company that has joined ACLU's suit against the NSA...
While Dear Leader's about as tricky as any other late middle aged alcoholic, the Company as an entity is an entirely different matter...
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Hey,
Why are you picking on drunks and not pot-smokers?
Ha ha only kidding - but really who cares if someone indulges once in a while? George Washington himself was under the influence of alcohol and laudenum due to dental issues - the point?
Thanks for the investigative excellence on the phone company - this is so important.
Check out some opinion at:
http://americanjourney.blogspot.com/
The point being habitual substance abusers don't belong in charge of a little black bag capable of wiping off all life on earth.
You've heard of thermonuclear weapons, right?
Unfortuantely its hard to see how resistabce against the big telcom- NSA alliance could change much, since even the calls managed by Working Assets have to go through the same telcom-owned chokepoints.
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