Remember the good old days when that
was all you could buy under the table?

Not long ago, we had an article on how Chicago police were warned about this. Between this and the article on Sprint and the kidnapped kid, cell phone companies aren’t faring too well in the press. Like they care with their record profits.

Wasn’t cell phone intercepts and records how we initially figured out where Bin Laden and pals were hiding?

Your cell phone records are on sale online for anyone to buy, without your permission. Well, this morning AMERICAblog bought former presidential candidate, and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (SACEUR), General Wesley Clark’s cell phone records for one hundred calls made over three days in November 2005, no questions asked. (Clark’s cell phone provider is Omnipoint Communications, which seems to be related to T-Mobile.)

All we needed was General Clark’s cell phone number and our credit card, and 24 hours later we had one hundred calls the general made on his cell phone in November. The calls included a number of calls to Arkansas, to foreign countries, and at least one call to a prominent reporter at the Washington Post. To ensure that we actually had General Clark’s correct cell phone number, we called the number this morning and the voice mail recording that answered said:

“Hi, this is Wes Clark, leave a message [unintelligible].”