{"id":7500,"date":"2006-05-24T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T17:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7500"},"modified":"2006-05-24T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T17:09:27","slug":"no-access-means-no-investigation-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/no-access-means-no-investigation-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"No access means no investigation &#8212; redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/24\/washington\/24brfs-brief-008.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">This<\/a> seems to be part of a pattern.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [tag]Federal Communications Commission[\/tag] will not pursue complaints about the National Security Agency&#8217;s access to millions of telephone records because it cannot obtain classified material, the commission&#8217;s chairman said in a letter released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, had asked regulators to investigate a report in USA Today that AT&#038;T, Verizon and BellSouth turned over records of phone calls to the security agency as part of efforts to compile a database to track terrorist activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The classified nature of the N.S.A.&#8217;s activities makes us unable to investigate the alleged violations,&#8221; said the commission&#8217;s chairman, [tag]Kevin Martin[\/tag], a Republican, in the May 22 letter released by Mr. Markey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes just two weeks after the [tag]Justice Department[\/tag] announced it would not conduct a review whether the NSA&#8217;s warrantless-search program was legal because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7380.html\">it couldn&#8217;t obtain classified material either<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a system, isn&#8217;t it? The [tag]NSA[\/tag], with [tag]Bush[\/tag]&#8217;s approval, launches legally-dubious [tag]surveillance[\/tag] efforts with cooperation from telecommunications companies. The Justice Department isn&#8217;t allowed to review the program, the [tag]FCC[\/tag] isn&#8217;t allowed to review the program, and Congress <em>is<\/em> allowed but doesn&#8217;t feel like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems to be part of a pattern. The [tag]Federal Communications Commission[\/tag] will not pursue complaints about the National Security Agency&#8217;s access to millions of telephone records because it cannot obtain classified material, the commission&#8217;s chairman said in a letter released on Tuesday. Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, had asked regulators to investigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}