Between a rock and a hard place Options

[*mipadi*]

From MSNBC.com:

FCC member wants telecoms' NSA help probed
Says phone companies may have broken law by turning over records

The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the telephone industry, should open an investigation into whether the nation’s phone companies broke the law by turning over millions of calling records to the government, an FCC commissioner says.

The National Security Agency has been collecting records of calls made in the U.S. by ordinary Americans as part of its anti-terrorism efforts, according to USA Today. The newspaper story followed reports that the NSA has been conducting eavesdropping on the electronic communications of suspected al-Qaida members and their contacts in the U.S. without warrants.

Commissioner Michael J. Copps' comments also come as the three phone companies allegedly involved -- AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. -- face a growing number of lawsuits by consumers. The latest, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, seeks billions of dollars in damages for violation of federal privacy laws.

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So...what does a company do when a powerful and secretive intelligence organization orders them to do something its own government forbids?