Tuesday, June 2, 2009

when you're the secret service, bills "dissapear"

really? no satellites?

Construction Crew Severs Secret ‘Black Line’
June 1, 2009

A Verizon lineman grips the strands contained in a fiber optic cable in Massapequa Park, N.Y. on May 11, 2006. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A construction crew working on an office building in Virginia severed a fiber optic cable that wasn’t on anyone’s map. Apparently it was a ‘black line’ used for carrying secret intelligence data, according to sources who spoke recently with the Washington Post.

Within minutes of cutting the cable, three black SUV’s pulled up carrying men in suits who complained that their line was severed.

“The construction manager was shocked,” a worker told the Washington Post “He had never seen a line get cut and people show up within seconds. Usually you’ve got to figure out whose line it is. To garner that kind of response that quickly was amazing.”

AT&T crews arrived the same day to fix the line, an unusually prompt response. When AT&T tried to bill the construction company $300,000, the company balked and the charges “just disappeared.”

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