Holy crap is this article a little scary. I recently came upon a Washington Post article about former CEO of Qwuest Communications Joeseph P Nacchio who was convicted on six counts of insider trading when he sold a bunch of his company stock right before the price per share tanked. He's trying to appeal, and his argument was that his company was being punished by the Bush administration because his refused to aid the NSA in illegal wire tapping six months BEFORE 9/11. Apparently the NSA didn't like this and pulled the plug on other nonrelated but extremely lucrative contracts with them as a result, which they of course did not expect, leading to the CEO appearing to be insider trading when really he was expecting the company to still turn a profit due to the other government contracts.
Okay, we all know that there has been government wire tapping going on for years (though they won't confirm or deny it), but everyone thought it was due to 9/11. I certainly hadn't considered that they had been planning on this insane breach of personal freedom from the get go, and it really makes you wonder what the plans this administration had before 9/11 if they had already wanted to collect American phone records before any serious kind of event had called for it.
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