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The Telecom Digest for July 30, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 189 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
L.A. County starting over on emergency communications system(Lisa or Jeff)
It's all about Priorities(Randall Webmail)

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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:14:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: L.A. County starting over on emergency communications system 
Message-ID: <3cf1d6ad-e87a-416b-93b7-d2630ab36ff5@f20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>

The LA Times reported that, "Los Angeles County leaders Thursday put
the county at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in
federal funds when they voted to scrap years of planning for a vast
emergency communications system and restart the search for companies
to build the complex project."

for full article please see:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-emergency-communications-20110728,0,5014245.story




Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randall  Webmail <rvh40.remove-this@and-this-too.insightbb.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: It's all about Priorities 
Message-ID: <1592533482.120969.1311957800169.JavaMail.root@md03.insight.synacor.com>

Under cover of debt crisis, Senate looks to extend telco spying immunity 

By Stephen C. Webster 
July 29, 2011 @ 9:44 am 

Legislation which changed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) to give U.S. telecoms immunity from prosecution for
participating in legally-ambiguous spying programs, isn't set to
expire until 2012 -- but one group of U.S. Senators appears to see
opportunity in crisis.

Amid the calamitous debt-limit talks seizing Washington in recent
weeks, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence kick started
yesterday the mark-up of legislation that would reapprove the spying
activities and telecom immunity. [SNIP]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/29/under-cover-of-debt-crisis-senate-looks-to-extend-telco-spying-immunity/print/ 





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