Here’s what Roll Call‘s Morton Kondracke had to say about Qwest’s trumpeting that it refused to cooperate with the National Security Agency:
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In the beginning, Qwest, this other company, to its discredit, said it was not cooperating with the NSA and specifically decided not to cooperate. Now if we are fighting a war on terrorism, you would think the telephone companies would want to cooperate and I would hope that they would be cooperating. And for a company to opt out and say no, no, no we are to privacy minded for this is it is basically helping terrorists. I think Senator Roberts is absolutely right. What’s going on now is shocking. People are treating the Constitution of the United States as a suicide pact. Here we have al- Qaeda, everybody has been watching “United 93,” and everybody should watch “United 93,” just to remind us of what we’re dealing with. They would slam a plane into the capitol, they would blow up an atomic bomb if they possibly could, and we are acting like people who are trying to protect us are criminals.
