Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Verizon and NSA Surveillance on Cavuto

"We should always worry when we see big business and big government getting cozy," warns Reason Managing Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward about Verizon's new contract with the Department of Interior. Under the 10-year, $10 billion contract, Verizon will provide cloud and hosting services. 

This contract has caused some to question Verizon's relationship with the federal government. In June, the Guardian reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) had ordered Verizon to hand over phone records of its customers to the U.S. government.

According to a Wall Street Journal article posted Tuesday night, the NSA has developed a surveillance network that can reach about 75 percent of all Internet traffic in the U.S. This is considerably more internet survellience than intelligence officials have previously disclosed to the public.

Air Date: August 20, 2013

About 3 minutes.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Instead of The Twilight Zone, Cavuto could have gotten his point across with a Ford quote. "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

And who stores their stuff in a cloud, anyway? Government agencies should know better than anyone.

[Mongo]

You have a typo in the headline, Ms. Mangu-Ward.

[KPres]

Why beat around the bush? This is hush money and everybody knows it.

[Libertymike]

Its time for us to act: no more patronizing any company which does business with the NSA, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security or any other law enforcement agency, local, county, state or feds.

Who here has the integrity and the stones do follow through?

[Almanian!]

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