John Ashcroft Encourages Immunity for Telecom Companies, Paid By Telecom Companies

by: Matt Stoller

Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 16:26


Here's a letter from John Ashcroft, James Comey, Jeff Goldsmith and Phil Philben.

For all of these reasons, we encourage the Committee to approve the carrier immunity provision as a fair, just, and equitable result that properly promotes a policy of encouraging the private sector to cooperate with the intelligence community.

Maybe Ashcroft believes in this, but it's certainly a profitable set of beliefs.

According to lobbying disclosure reports as well as interviews, the new AT&T's outside lobbying firms include the Ashcroft Group, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Cassidy, DC Navigators, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Ogilvy Government Relations and Quinn Gillespie & Associates, among others.

Telecom companies own DC, from Al Wynn to Jay Rockefeller John Ashcroft.  It's just that simple.

Matt Stoller :: John Ashcroft Encourages Immunity for Telecom Companies, Paid By Telecom Companies

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Carter Administration Attorney General Benjamin Civilleti, Republican Dick Thornburgh and former FBI Director William Webster wrote a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece in favor of telecom immunity.  Big Tent Democrat points out that each are with telecom law firms.

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