Whisle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room, AT&T Complicit

[The Cleaner]

This is interesting...

Anybody ever see the movie "SNEAKERS?"

AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.

On Wednesday, the EFF asked the court to issue an injunction prohibiting AT&T from continuing the alleged wiretapping, and filed a number of documents under seal, including three AT&T documents that purportedly explain how the wiretapping system works.

According to a statement released by Klein's attorney, an NSA agent showed up at the San Francisco switching center in 2002 to interview a management-level technician for a special job. In January 2003, Klein observed a new room being built adjacent to the room housing AT&T's #4ESS switching equipment, which is responsible for routing long distance and international calls."I learned that the person whom the NSA interviewed for the secret job was the person working to install equipment in this room," Klein wrote. "The regular technician work force was not allowed in the room."


Source: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70619-0.html

[MissWaverly]

1. I heard from a reliable source

that at this person's bank, NSA comes in every month and goes through every single business
account at that bank and questions anything that is not a routine transaction. Every
single ACCOUNT. Not just for Dems, shifty eyed bloggers, liberals, every single ACCOUNT.

Miss Waverly

[razors edge]

2. we have always been at war with eurasia.

[lisainmilo]

3. At&T is one of Bushs top contributors

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000076
non partisan group that keeps track of all political monies