Oh, really!!
...Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician revealed
the collaboration between AT&T and the NSA in acquiring both
domestic and foreign electronic transmissions for later analysis. Having
hands-on responsibility for part of AT&T network, Klein was in a
unique position to address the level of AT&T’s collaboration with
the NSA.
Klein revealed that he had documents that showed the NSA had access
to e-mail and metadata (the “data about data”) from more than a dozen
telecommunications providers.
According to an article
in the Washington Post, Klein said that the NSA built a special room to
intercept data traveling through AT&T transmission lines. Some of
the largest data links were being captured at a rate of 2.5 gigabits of
data per second, the equivalent of 50,000 web pages per second.
Klein said that “the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet
and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of
AT&T” and that “contrary to the government’s depiction of its
surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists . . . much of the
data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic.”
Who needs the IRS when Obozo has AT&T?
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