New light on NSA spying

By Kim Zetter
Republished from salon.com
A former Internet expert for the FCC concludes that a secret AT&T installation was most likely used for government surveillance.
June 23, 2006 | A federal court in California released a previously sealed 40-page document on Thursday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s lawsuit against AT&T, which bolsters allegations that the telecommunications giant built secret rooms to allow the National Security Agency to conduct widespread surveillance of Internet traffic. The document also paints a detailed scenario of how the NSA may be conducting the top-secret operation, which closely matches information given to Salon by a former AT&T employee who worked at the company’s network operations center in Bridgeton, Mo.