NSA Wiretaps - A News Timeline

:: Part 4: September 2007 - January 2008

• 16 October 2007
  Qwest Official Says NSA Wiretaps Preceded 9-11
  Former Qwest CEO Joseph P. Nacchio, who has been convicted of insider trading, "said the NSA approached Qwest more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ... [suggesting] that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon."
• 16 November 2007
  Are the Ds Developing Backbone?
  Or are they simply setting up veto opportunities for President Bush, like a Republican Congress did to Clinton?
  
  On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved (10-9) a bill modifying FISA that does not grant immunity to telecos that cooperated with the Bush Administration's non-FISA-authorized wiretaps, and the House approved (227-189) its own FISA-modification bill, also without immunity.

:: Introduction
:: Part 1: Dec 2005 - Feb 2006
:: Part 2: Apr 2006 - July 2006
:: Part 3: Aug 2006 - Aug 2007
:: Part 4: Sept 2007 - Jan 2008