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Oh ok, Ya caught me!

C.I.R. Press Alert

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- How things change. One man that is harsh against the TSP program, basically his OWN idea.

A big huge hat-tip to NewsMax.com:
In 1994 Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy co-wrote a law that forced telecommunications carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks enabling the kind of telephone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance operation…

"CALEA requires a telecommunications provider to make 'its equipment, facilities, or services ... capable of ... enabling the government ... [without a warrant] to intercept ... all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier.'"