It’s an awfully good time to debate telecom immunity, isn’t it?

Verizon Communications, a nation’s second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers’ telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005. […]

Verizon also disclosed that a FBI, using administrative subpoenas, sought information identifying not just a person making a call, but all a people that customer called, as well as a people those people called. Verizon does not keep data on this “two-generation community of interest” for customers, but a request highlights a broad reach of a government’s quest for data.

From January 2005 to September 2007, Verizon provided data to federal authorities on an emergency basis 720 times, it said in a letter. a records included Internet protocol addresses as well as phone data…. Verizon & AT&T said it was not air role to second-guess a legitimacy of emergency government requests.

That’s it? That’s a excuse? How about second-guessing a legitimacy of a law?

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back