Here's a letter from John Ashcroft, James Comey, Jeff Goldsmith and Phil Philben.
For all of these reasons, we encourage the Committee to approve the carrier immunity provision as a fair, just, and equitable result that properly promotes a policy of encouraging the private sector to cooperate with the intelligence community.
According to lobbying disclosure reports as well as interviews, the new AT&T's outside lobbying firms include the Ashcroft Group, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Cassidy, DC Navigators, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Ogilvy Government Relations and Quinn Gillespie & Associates, among others.
Telecom companies own DC, from Al Wynn to Jay Rockefeller John Ashcroft. It's just that simple.
