Whistleblower Says Feds Spying on All E-Mail
by Ian Mosley
It’s pretty much an open secret that ever since 9/11, the United States government is spying on people’s e-mail and recording pretty much all domestic e-mail traffic, but every now and then something occurs that confirms what’s going on.
ABC News reports that a whistleblower named Mark Klein has spoken out about the domestic spying practices of one major internet service provider, AT&T. A recent news article reports “As an AT&T technician overseeing internet operations in San Francisco, he helped maintain optical splitters that diverted data en route to and from AT&T customers. One day he found that the splitters were hard-wired into a secret room on the sixth floor. Klein said only a management-level employee with NSA security clearance was allowed inside, but documents he obtained from AT&T showed that highly sophisticated data mining equipment was kept there…Conversations he had with other technicians and the AT&T documents led Klein to believe there are 15 to 20 such sites nationwide, including in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Diego and Atlanta.” (more…)