Phone company cuts off FBI wiretap for unpaid bill

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I laughed when I read this. How can a government agency defaulted in its payment? "Late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence, including an instance where delivery of intercept information required by a ... FISA order was halted due to untimely payment," the audit said. I guess the US have been doing too much of spy work until the FBI could not afford to pay the bill anymore. LOL! What do you think of this? Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080110/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_security_fbi;_ylt=AlFuM7YUMslyqs4ZXj5W8fPtiBIF