Verizon Phone Records ‘Monitored’ By US Govt

The IRS targeting of tea party conservatives for extra scrutiny has also reflected badly on the White House.

“That’s not the society we’ve built in the United States,” said Kurt Opsahl, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing the NSA over surveillance inside the country.

“It’s not the society we set forth in the Constitution, and it’s not the society we should have.”

Verizon’s biggest rival, AT&T, did not provide any immediate comment when asked if the government had made a similar request for its data.

Verizon Communications listed 121 million customers in its first-quarter earnings report this April – 98.9 million wireless customers, 11.7 million residential phone lines and about 10 million commercial lines.

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