AT&T已决定加入日益壮大的联盟，这些人后悔付钱给特朗普总统的律师。今天，美国电话电报公司（AT&T）向美国电话电报公司（AT&T）员工发布了一条消息，该消息首先由美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）获得；T总裁兰德尔·斯蒂芬森（Randall Stephenson）说：“过去几天，我们的公司因为所有错误的原因而登上了头条，我们的声誉受到了损害。没有其他的说法-AT&；不管怎样，斯蒂芬森坚持认为“我...
AT&T已决定加入日益壮大的联盟，这些人后悔付钱给特朗普总统的律师。今天，美国电话电报公司（AT&T）向美国电话电报公司（AT&T）员工发布了一条消息，该消息首先由美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）获得；T总裁兰德尔·斯蒂芬森（Randall Stephenson）说：“过去几天，我们的公司因为所有错误的原因而登上了头条，我们的声誉受到了损害。没有其他的说法-AT&；不管怎样，斯蒂芬森坚持认为“我们所做的一切都是依法进行的，是完全合法的。”
但是，尽管斯蒂芬森说他对这个错误负有“全部责任”，但实际上似乎AT&T的首席说客鲍勃·奎因（Bob Quinn）受到了打击。史蒂芬森还宣布，奎因“将退休”，该公司的游说机构现在将向AT&T总顾问大卫·麦卡蒂（David McAtee）报告。
如果你最近几年一直在关注网络中立的传奇故事，你可能已经见过奎因的名字一两次了。作为电信行业最直言不讳、最激进的说客之一，他花了大量时间抨击网络中立性和互联网隐私规则等问题(奎因自AT&；的时代起就一直在为可疑的ISP废话辩护；T在移动互联网上屏蔽FaceTime，这是该公司最严重的滥用行为之一。），而他的头衔从技术上讲是“外部和外部管理高级执行副总裁”；他经常担任美国电话电报公司,；T的首席博主，发表长篇大论，解释为什么互联网倡导者过度宣传和歪曲事实。
AT&T不会因为Quinn的离开而改变其对合理互联网监管的态度，但在他的职位被填补之前，我们可能会看到更少的辛辣博客文章。
以下是斯蒂芬森致AT&T员工的备忘录：
A message from Randall
To: All AT&T employees worldwide
Team,
Our company has been in the headlines for all the wrong reas*** these last few days and our reputation has been damaged. There is no other way to say it – AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political c***ultant was a big mistake.
To be clear, everything we did was done according to the law and entirely legitimate. But the fact is, our past association with Cohen was a serious misjudgment. In this instance, our Washington D.C. team’s vetting process clearly failed, and I take resp***ibility for that. Here [linked] is more information on this issue, if you’re interested.
For the foreseeable future, the External & Legislative Affairs (E&LA) group will report to our General Counsel David McAtee. Bob Quinn, Senior Executive Vice President - E&LA, will be retiring.
David’s number one priority is to ensure every one of the individuals and firms we use in the political arena are people who share our high standards and who we would be proud to have associated with AT&T.
To all of you who work tirelessly every day to serve customers and represent the brand proudly, thank you. My personal commitment to you is – we will do better.
以下是斯蒂芬森提到的“更多信息”：
Facts around AT&T & Michael Cohen
• In early 2017, as President Trump was taking office, AT&T hired several c***ultants to help us understand how the President and his administration might approach a wide range of policy issues important to the company, including regulatory reform at the FCC, tax reform, and antitrust enforcement, specifically our Time Warner deal. Companies often hire political c***ultants, especially at the beginning of a new presidential administration, and we have done so in previous administrati***.
• Michael Cohen approached our External Affairs organization during the post-election transition period and said he was going to leave the Trump Organization and do c***ulting for a select few companies that wanted his opinion on the new President and his administration – the key players, their priorities, and how they think.
• Our Washington DC team hired Cohen for just that purpose, under a one-year contract at $50,000 per month, from January through December 2017. Our contract with Cohen was expressly limited to providing c***ulting and advisory services, and it did not permit him to lobby on our behalf without first notifying us (which never occurred). We didn’t ask him to set up any meetings for us with anyone in the Administration and he didn’t offer to do so.
• When we were contacted by the Special Counsel’s office regarding Michael Cohen, we cooperated fully, providing all information requested in November and December of 2017. Since then, we have received no additional questi*** from the Special Counsel’s office and have c***idered the matter closed.
