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UPDATE: We tried to get the cell phone records of other high-profile Washingtonians like ABC's George Stephanopoulos, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, and the New York Time's Adam Nagourney, but LocateCell was unable to provide me with their records (possibly because those three use Verizon as their cell phone service, or possibly because LocateCell was on to me).
I reported the other day that 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.
" We have subsequently called that number and spoken to a real person to confirm its authenticity, and to make sure General Clark was aware of this issue and what we were doing. But let me first say, as an aside, that I bought my own Cingular Wireless phone records this past weekend and reported on it on AMERICAblog. I wouldn't do this to any other public person without first doing it to myself. But even after reporting on this gross violation of my (and your) personal privacy, Congress, the Administration, and the phone companies have yet to act effectively. I was a big fan of his presidential campaign, and he was the first candidate I supported. This effort was not meant in any way as a slight to the general. We wanted to see if it was possible to buy the phone records of someone high profile in order to prove that this is a problem with serious national security implications, and frankly, we didn't want to pick a Republican since we thought such a choice would be perceived as partisan or mean-spirited, and that is not our intent for exposing this. Our intent is to get this problem fixed so that we all can benefit.
It is possible that both sites are run by the same company. The following is the list we received from CellTolls detailing 100 consecutive phone calls either placed or received on General Clark's cell phone from November 15 to 18, 2005. The company only gives you 100 calls, then you have to pay more for additional calls. We have blacked out all but the last two digits of every phone number, including General Clark's cell phone number, in order to protect his privacy and the privacy of anyone he has been in contact with. This will permit General Clark, and at least one Washington Post reporter, to confirm that the record is legit. The only question now remaining is why President Bush, our leaders in Congress, and our wireless phone companies (at the very least T-Mobile and Cingular, whose customers' records are available online to anyone) have known about this problem for at least six months but have yet to fix it. PS CBS News is going to report on the cell records privacy scandal tonight (1/12/06) on their evening news broadcast.
US politics overall with a particular focus on the Bush Administration, the radical right, and gay civil rights. John Aravosis is a Washington DC-based writer and political consultant, specializing in using the Internet for political advocacy. John has a joint law degree and masters in foreign service from Georgetown, where he studied under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
John's policy experience includes stints in the US Senate, the World Bank, and the Children's Defense Fund. John is also an occasional TV pundit, having appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, ABCNews World News Tonight, CNN, Court TV, and more. John speaks five languages and has visited or worked in 28 countries. Michael Giltz Michael is a freelance writer based in New York City who covers politics, sports, religion and especially pop culture (including movies, music, books, theater, TV, and DVDs). He's written more than one thousand reviews, features, opinion columns and cover stories for The Advocate, the New York Post, Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, New York magazine, Out, The Weekly Standard, Disney Adventures, In Theatre, USA Today, the Denver Post and many others. As an expert on politics and pop culture, Michael Giltz has appeared on TV in Germany, the Basque region, MSNBC and other cable channels. For radio, he's appeared on NPR in Boston, and other local and nationally syndicated radio shows including Sirius Satellite Radio's gay and sports channels.
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