I am more and more impressed with Gavin Newsom. When he won SF Mayor, I kind of cringed at the thought of a runaway pro-growth administration; and everything he's done since that day has let me feel better and better that he is a great Mayor and maybe more?
Here, sfgate.com covers his attempt to pressure AT&T for bending over for the NSA on the wiretapping problem with city contracts. I say bully!
City officials are investigating AT&T's alleged cooperation with the National Security Agency and considering possible "consequences" the company could face in its extensive municipal contracts here if it is violating civil liberties, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.
"If what I'm reading is true, I've got some serious problems as a San Franciscan, as a taxpayer and as mayor," Newsom said in interview with The Associated Press. "And I don't like it."
A federal lawsuit filed by Internet privacy advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation accuses the telecommunications giant of illegally cooperating with the NSA to make communications on AT&T networks available to the spy agency without warrants. According to the lawsuit, AT&T allowed the NSA to install data.m.ining equipment in secret rooms at AT&T offices in San Francisco and a handful of other cities.
Hey, this is the Mayor that made gay marriage fun again - on Feb 14th no less. Good show all around.