US Spies Have "Security Agreements" With Foreign Telecoms

McGruber writes "The Washington Post is reporting the existence of 'Team Telecom', lawyers from the FBI and the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, who ensure that Global Crossing and other foreign-owned telecoms, quickly and confidentially fulfill the USA's surveillance requests. Team Telecom leverages the authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve cable licenses. The security agreement for Global Crossing, whose fiber-optic network connected 27 nations and four continents, required the company to have a 'Network Operations Center' on U.S. soil that could be visited by government officials with 30 minutes of warning. Surveillance requests, meanwhile, had to be handled by U.S. citizens screened by the government and sworn to secrecy — in many cases prohibiting information from being shared even with the company's executives and directors. A spokesman for Level 3 Communications declined to comment for the Washington Post's article."

Yep

[Anonymous Coward]

Definetly sounding more and more like 1984 every day... with people opening up their mouths for a taste of frosty piss from the government for first posts.

Re:As if

[Anonymous Coward]

It's one thing to assume it's going on, it's another thing to actually find proof it's going on.

Just like you assume your parents had nasty, disgusting sex to conceive you, and that's fine. But it's totally another thing to see the old home porno vhs tapes of them humping and grunting and confirming all your suspicions.

Re:As if

[king neckbeard]

He, there is still time. In fact, the longer you wait, the more disgusting it will be.