Big Brother Is Watching You NOW On The Internet

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Big Brother Is Watching You NOW On The Internet

 

GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE OF INTERNET TRAFFIC by AT & T and National Security

Agency

 

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The day of George Orwell's " telescreen " has finally arrived.

Big Brother Is Watching NOW You On The Internet

 

ABC just ran a story of whistleblower, Mark Klein, AT & T technician,

regarding GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE OF INTERNET TRAFFIC by AT & T and National

Security

Agency.

 

At a San Francisco switching center Mr. Klein collected over 120 pages of

technical documents showing how NSA installed splitters which would allow

of

both domestic and international internet communications to be copied.

 

Mr. Klein's story by (LA Times reporter, Joe Menn,) was killed at the

request of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte and NSA Director

Gen.

Michael Hayden

 

The New York Times did publish it, and Newline ran it on March 6th.

 

Why did the government insist on breaking AT & T up, but now lets them come

back together?

Is what we are seeing here just " the tip of the iceberg " ?

How pervasive is the censorship of the internet?

 

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Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to Tell Story March 06, 2007

10:53

AM

Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report:

Whistle-blower AT & T technician Mark Klein says his effort to reveal alleged

government surveillance of domestic Internet traffic was blocked not only

by

U.S. intelligence officials but also by the top editors of the Los Angeles

Times.

In his first broadcast interview, which can be seen tonight on World News

and Nightline, Klein describes how he stumbled across " secret NSA rooms "

being

installed at an AT & T switching center in San Francisco and later heard of

similar rooms in at least six other cities, including Atlanta, San Diego,

Los

Angeles, Palo Alto, San Jose and Seattle.

" You needed an ordinary key and the code to punch into a key pad on the

door, and the only person who had both of those things was the one guy

cleared by

the NSA, " Klein says of the " secret room " at the AT & T center in San

Francisco.

The NSA is the National Security Agency, the country's most secretive

intelligence agency, charged with intercepting communications overseas.

Klein says he collected 120 pages of technical documents left around the

San

Francisco office showing how the NSA was installing " splitters " that would

allow it to copy both domestic and international Internet traffic moving

through AT & T connections with 16 other trunk lines.

" It's gobs and gobs of information going across the Internet, " Klein says.

President Bush has acknowledged he authorized the NSA to intercept the

communications of people with known links to terrorist organizations " into

or out

of the United States, " but that " we're not trolling through the personal

lives of millions of innocent Americans. "

Intelligence experts say the NSA has the means to filter out suspect

communications with sophisticated machines that spot key words, names,

addresses or

patterns.

Eventually, Klein says he decided to take his documents to the Los Angeles

Times, to blow the whistle on what he calls " an illegal and Orwellian

project. "

But after working for two months with LA Times reporter Joe Menn, Klein

says

he was told the story had been killed at the request of then-Director of

National Intelligence John Negroponte and then-director of the NSA Gen.

Michael

Hayden.

The Los Angeles Times' decision was made by the paper's editor at the time,

Dean Baquet, now the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.

Baquet confirmed to ABCNews.com he talked with Negroponte and Hayden but

says " government pressure played no role in my decision not to run the

story. "

Baquet says he and managing editor Doug Frantz decided " we did not have a

story, that we could not figure out what was going on " based on Klein's

highly

technical documents.

The reporter, Menn, declined to comment, but Baquet says he knows " Joe

disagreed and was very disappointed.T

Klein says he then took his AT & T documents to The New York Times, which

published its exclusive account last April.

 

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As the new Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, Baquet now

oversees the reporters who have broken most of the major stories involving

the

government surveillance program, often over objections from the government.

After The New York Times story appeared, Klein filed an affidavit in a

lawsuit against AT & T brought by a civil liberties group, Electronic

Frontier

Foundation.

The NSA says it will not confirm or deny the existence or the purpose of

the

" secret rooms, " but in a filing in the court case against AT & T, Negroponte

formally invoked the " state secrets privilege, " claiming the lawsuit and

the

information from Klein and others could " cause exceptionally grave damage

to

the national security of the United States. "

Klein says what he knows won't help terrorists.

" The only people that are being kept in the dark is the American people who

are being misled and not realizing, not being told that their private

information, that their liberties are being destroyed and tramped on, " he

said.