More on Pasdar

An article from today’s Washington Post details how the federal government can use telecoms to spy on Americans and gather remarkable amounts of private information.

The article is based largely on the disclosures of GAP client Babak Pasdar, a computer expert who discovered a mysterious "Quantico Circuit" at a major telecommunications company’s facility in 2003 which provided the federal government unfettered access to all customer mobile phone communications - all calls, emails, text messages, internet use, videos, billing, location - with no record of what was taken.

Pasdar’s disclosures are credited with persuading the House of Representatives to not grant immunity to telecoms involved with the warrantless wiretapping and illegal domestic spying scandal.

GAP Legal Director Tom Devine has written an op-ed centering on Pasdar’s disclosures, which has run in many newspapers throughout the country.

-- Dylan Blaylock