[April 07, 2006] AT&T tech backs suit over NSA surveillance Tweet (UPI Top Stories Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)A retired AT&T technician says the company provided the U.S. National Security Agency with facilities to monitor telephone and Internet traffic. Mark Klein's affidavit was filed in federal court in San Francisco in support of a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired magazine reports. The foundation filed a class-action suit in January, claiming that AT&T broke federal and state laws by cooperating with warrantless wiretapping. Klein, who says he was involved in helping to set up equipment for the NSA, decided to get involved in the lawsuit because he does not believe the Bush administration is being honest about its surveillance, Wired reported. Despite what we are hearing, and considering the public track record of this administration, I simply do not believe their claims that the NSA's spying program is really limited to foreign communications or is otherwise consistent with the NSA's charter or with (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), he said. And unlike the controversy over targeted wiretaps of individuals' phone calls, this potential spying appears to be applied wholesale to all sorts of Internet communications of countless citizens. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]