[jamesaguilar]

Is there evidence that the securities fraud charges were actually caused by their refusal? Or were they caused by the fact that the guy said Qwest was doing well and sold ahead of a huge downturn in prices? As far as I can tell from Wikipedia, the charges would have stuck irrespective of the NSA stuff.

[wavefunction]

The downturn in the stock came after the government dismissed the contract. "Induced" insider trading by the government manipulating the stock to tank, then prosecuting in some people's opinions.

[001sky]

The stock went for 40 to 2 and had nothing to do with the NSA.