PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS NO DOUBT LISTENING IN: Former NSA whistleblower calls for new American Revolution against surveillance state.

Related: Agreements with private companies protect U.S. access to cables’ data for surveillance. “In months of private talks, the team of lawyers from the FBI and the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security demanded that the company maintain what amounted to an internal corporate cell of American citizens with government clearances. Among their jobs, documents show, was ensuring that surveillance requests got fulfilled quickly and confidentially. This ‘Network Security Agreement,’ signed in September 2003 by Global Crossing, became a model for other deals over the past decade as foreign investors increasingly acquired pieces of the world’s telecommunications infrastructure.”

Global Crossing, of course, went bankrupt, but not before enriching Democrat insiders like Terry McAuliffe. But it wasn’t the only company involved in this deal.

UPDATE: More on McAuliffe: “McAuliffe turned a $100K stock buy into $18M thanks to his relationship with the CEO of Internet firm Global Crossing. Shortly thereafter the company went bankrupt, the stock price collapsed and 10,000 employees lost their jobs.”