Documents purportedly at the heart of a lawsuit accusing AT&T of collaborating with the National Security Agency to snoop on Americans appeared Monday on the Web, possibly shedding new light on surveillance techniques but also intensifying debate over the publication of leaked documents related to national security.
Wired News posted 29 pages that Editor in Chief Evan Hansen said were obtained from an unnamed source close to the lawsuit brought in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The foundation accuses AT&T of illegally turning over tens of millions of telephone and Internet records to the NSA in what it calls a "massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications."
Experts who reviewed the Wired News documents posted Monday -- which include technical descriptions and depictions of equipment at the AT&T office -- said that they were consistent with such surveillance but that the material did not provide conclusive proof of actual surveillance.
"It may look like a duck and quack like a duck but not be a duck," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. "It would be a mistake to presume that we know more than we do ... (but) it's another piece of the puzzle." (SF Chronicle Page A - 1)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing AT&T over their cooperation with the Gestapo in illegally spying on millions of innocent Americans. You can check out their activities here.
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