Word: subpoena
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...wake of reports that the NSA is monitoring phone records, Senator Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said he would subpoena phone companies to appear before his committee. The phone companies said they would try to be there sometime between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m." TINA...
...nation's three largest phone companies--and has produced what is reported to be the largest such database ever. But while lawmakers vowed closer oversight--with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter announcing that he would summon the heads of the three phone companies to testify, under subpoena if necessary--few politicians went so far as to say that Bush should not have done...
...records. The three companies that turned over their customers' records--AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon, which combined carry roughly 80% of the nation's landline calls and half the wireless ones--all issued terse statements saying they valued their customers' privacy and did nothing illegal. "We get requests and subpoenas for records from cheating husbands and wives to sheriffs to the FBI down in Miami wanting a wiretap," Jeff Battcher, BellSouth's vice president of corporate communications, told TIME. "We know how to do this, and we would never give out any confidential customer information without having a subpoena...
...worth investigating. But even if your call to Aunt Sally isn't being listened to by some NSA officer, the program sounds creepy enough that no shortage of senators jumped all over it. The Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said he'd subpoena the heads of the three telecommunications companies involved - AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth - before hearings to find out what they knew. Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein, who had kind words about former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden when he was nominated to be the new CIA boss on Monday, talked ominously about...
That's pretty much what Mary Harron's cool, sly movie has for a conflict. And since Page, though under subpoena, never gets to tell her side of the story to Kefauver, not a lot comes of it. Mostly the film encourages us to giggle along with Page as she adopts more and more comically outrageous costumes and poses...