It's Not About Oil? It's About Money

"Mr. Nacchio made inquiry as to whether a warrant or other legal process had been secured in support of that request."
"When he learned that no such authority had been granted, and that there was a disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any legal process," Mr. Nacchio concluded that the requests violated federal privacy requirements "and issued instructions to refuse to comply."

The good news is that there is a company left in America that places the privacy of its clients above the authoritarian demands of the police state.
I’ve heard some reports that seemed to suggest that the three companies that did divulge the information were paid by the government. Greed disguised as patriotism. Those four words capture the essence of the Bush years.

'Yet nearly two years past a planned deadline, production of the card, known as the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, has yet to begin.
Instead, the road to delivering this critical antiterrorism tool has taken a detours to locations, companies and groups often linked to Representative Harold Rogers, a Kentucky Republican who is the powerful chairman of the House subcommittee that controls the Homeland Security budget.'

The bad news is that many Republican members of congress and other "civil servants" have seen this war for the money making bonanza that it is for those in the private sector - the ones who sacrifice nothing in our war to make the world safe for greed and the neoconservative American way.