Whistle-Blower Says AT&T Gave U.S. Spy Agency Access To Network

The EFF lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, seeks to stop the surveillance program that started shortly after the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. The suit is based in large part on the Klein documents, which detail secret spying rooms and electronic-surveillance equipment in AT&T facilities. The suit claims AT&T not only provided direct access to its network that carries voice and data but also to its massive databases of stored telephone and Internet records that are updated constantly. AT&T violated U.S. law and the privacy of its customers as part of the "massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications" without warrants, the EFF alleged. Klein said the NSA built a secret room at the company's San Francisco central office in 2003, adjacent to a "switch room where the public's phone calls are routed." One of the documents under seal, Klein said, shows a device was installed with the "ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for pre-programmed targets." Other so-called secret rooms were constructed at AT&T sites in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, the statement said. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/04/13/pf-1533750.html

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