What is behind the Ney-Abramoff wireless telephone deal?

[AntiFascist]

Alleged ties between Abramoff and certain mob-like activity are well documented:

http://www.madcowprod.com/

It is now being reported by MSNBC and other MSM:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10692635/

Court documents also said Abramoff solicited $50,000 from a wireless telephone company and got Ney’s agreement to push the company’s application to install a wireless telephone infrastructure in the House of Representatives, a job Ney’s committee would have overseen.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aLqJAwc6PFDY&refer=us

Ney's committee awarded a contract in 2002 to Foxcom Wireless, now Vienna, Virginia-based MobileAccess Networks, to install cell phone transmission equipment at the Capitol. Foxcom paid Abramoff's then-law firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP, $280,000 in 2003 and 2004. Foxcom's lobbyists included former Ney chief of staff Neil Volz.

The American Conservative Magazine divulges more details in their 12/5/05 issue. There may likely be an underlying anti-Semitic spin to this reporting, but could this point to possible spying on House Reps?

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/11/jack-abramoffs-israeli-connections.html

The contract was for the installation of antennas in House of Representatives buildings to improve cell-phone reception. Not surprisingly, such equipment can be designed to have what is known as a "back door" to enable a third party, in this case Mossad, to listen in. That an Israeli firm should be given such a contract through a selection process that was described as "deeply flawed and unfair" is explicable, particularly as there were American suppliers of the same equipment, and it suggest that the private conversations of some of our Congressmen might not be so private after all.

In a previous scandal in 2001, FBI investigators strongly suspected that two Israeli companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, which had been allowed to obtain U.S. government telecommunications contracts, were able to use back-door technology to compromise the security of DEA, Pentagon, and White House phones.

[shraby]

1. I saw that too, and my first thought was

it was a good way to spy on the reps.

[txindy]

2. And use the info. gathered to influence their votes

'Blackmail' is such an ugly word, so let's use 'extortion' instead, because that's exactly what that would be.

[bleever]

3. The Israelis wouldn't spy on us; they're our ally. Republicans wouldn't

eavesdrop; they're the "Law and Order" party.

Rove wouldn't manipulate the vote; it would be wrong.

[Sydnie]

4. Pass the pipe bleev ...

I could use some of what ever you are smoking! :rofl: :hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. LOL great picture!