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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 10:43 AM
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Former Technician 'Turning In' AT&T Over NSA Program
Edited on Wed Nov-07-07 10:44 AM by kpete
Klein says that AT&T and its affiliates (and competitors) didn't just give the NSA domestic-to-overseas communications, and it didn't just give subscriber information known as "metadata." It gave them everything:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004656.php#more


A Story of Surveillance
Former Technician 'Turning In' AT&T Over NSA Program

By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

In an interview yesterday, he alleged that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T . Contrary to the government's depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists, Klein said, much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic. Klein said he believes that the NSA was analyzing the records for usage patterns as well as for content. ...

One of Klein's documents listed links to 16 entities, including Global Crossing, a large provider of voice and data services in the United States and abroad; UUNet, a large Internet provider in Northern Virginia now owned by Verizon; Level 3 Communications, which provides local, long-distance and data transmission in the United States and overseas; and more familiar names such as Sprint and Qwest. It also included data exchanges MAE-West and PAIX, or Palo Alto Internet Exchange, facilities where telecom carriers hand off Internet traffic to each other.

"I flipped out," he said. "They're copying the whole Internet. There's no selection going on here. Maybe they select out later, but at the point of handoff to the government, they get everything."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html


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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 10:48 AM
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1. K & R and 2 Big Thumbs Up for a patriot!
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 10:50 AM
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2. Ruh-roh, even Qwest was involved?
:shrug:

Must have been through one of the MAE connections.
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 10:52 AM
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3. More from the article. Thanks Mr. Klein!
Another Jewish patriot, I guess they are not all Zionist Israeli agents, huh.
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Klein is in Washington this week to share his story in the hope that it will persuade lawmakers not to grant legal immunity to telecommunications firms that helped the government in its anti-terrorism efforts.

The plain-spoken, bespectacled Klein, 62, said he may be the only person in the country in a position to discuss firsthand knowledge of an important aspect of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program. He is retired, so he isn't worried about losing his job. He did not have security clearance, and the documents in his possession were not classified, he said. He has no qualms about "turning in," as he put it, the company where he worked for 22 years until he retired in 2004.

"If they've done something massively illegal and unconstitutional -- well, they should suffer the consequences," Klein said. "It's not my place to feel bad for them. They made their bed, they have to lie in it. The ones who did , you can be sure, are high up in the company. Not the average Joes, who I enjoyed working with."
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In an interview yesterday, he alleged that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T . Contrary to the government's depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists, Klein said, much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic. Klein said he believes that the NSA was analyzing the records for usage patterns as well as for content.

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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 10:57 AM
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4. Hippies Strike Back!! The last time Klein was in D.C. was for an anti-war protest... In 1969!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
:hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :hippie:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 11:03 AM
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5. k n r
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williesgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 11:04 AM
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6. k&r
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 11:06 AM
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7. Let's hope someone does something with this info
Let's hope the Dems have some spine to stand up and do something.
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Lugnut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 03:09 PM
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8. K&R n/t
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