Now every lawmaker wants a piece of the action. Did I give this story to the Hill Democrats before I even wrote about it for the first time on the blog? Yes. Did they do anything with it for an entire week? No.
Anybody surprised?
Sigh.
From AP:
Disclosures that companies are selling private phone records have lawmakers and federal regulators moving to try to halt the practice.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said in a statement Monday that he will work with the head of the Senate Commerce Committee, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on a bill to criminalize the practice....
The Web site Americablog.com said this month that it was able to buy the cell phone records of former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark. All the site needed, it said, was Clark's cell phone number and a credit card payment of $89.95 _ and it received 100 calls he made over a three-day period last November
