We know what happened in the case of QWest before 9/11.
They contacted the CEO/Chairman asking to wiretap all the
customers. After he consulted with Legal, he refused. As
a result, NSA canceled a bunch of unrelated billion dollar
contracts that QWest was the top bidder for. And then the
DoJ targeted him and prosecuted him and put him in prison
for insider trading -- on the theory that he knew of
anticipated income from secret programs that QWest was
planning for the government, while the public didn't
because it was classified and he couldn't legally tell
them, and then he bought or sold QWest stock
knowing those things.
This CEO's name is Joseph P. Nacchio and TODAY he's still
serving a trumped-up 6-year federal prison sentence today
for quietly refusing an NSA demand to massively wiretap
his customers.
