AT&T Gave NSA Web-Data Access, Privacy Suit Says

AT&T GAVE NSA WEB-DATA ACCESS, PRIVACY SUIT SAYS
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Dionne Searcey dionne.searcey@wsj.com]
Documents unveiled in a lawsuit that privacy advocates filed against AT&T contain allegations from a former AT&T technician that the company allowed the National Security Agency to install equipment capable of examining "every individual message" on the Internet. In the documents, published yesterday by Wired.com, Mark Klein, the former AT&T employee, offers technical explanations for how the NSA may have tapped into AT&T's network by installing hardware in secret rooms at the company's San Francisco office and elsewhere. The lawsuit, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in federal court in San Francisco, accuses AT&T of illegally cooperating with the NSA to collect phone records without court authorization. The suit seeks billions of dollars in an attempt to hold AT&T responsible for divulging private information to the NSA. has yet to be completed.
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* Documents Say AT&T Assisted Surveillance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR200605...
* Pre-9/11 records help flag suspicious calling
Armed with details of billions of telephone calls, the National Security Agency used phone records linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to create a template of how phone activity among terrorists looks, say current and former intelligence officials who were briefed about the program.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060523/a_nsa23.art.htm