Big Brother Internet Spying

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A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a "secret room" to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell's 1984. - ppearing on MSNBC's Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of all internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office -- to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access -- via a cable splitting device. "My job was to connect circuits into the splitter device which was hard-wired to the secret room," said Klein. "And effectively, the splitter copied the entire data stream of those internet cables into the secret room -- and we're talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the internet." - "As a technician, I had the engineering wiring documents, which told me how the splitter was wired to the secret room," Klein continued. "And so I know that whatever went across those cables was copied and the entire data stream was copied..." - According to Klein, that information included internet activity about Americans. "We're talking about domestic traffic as well as international traffic," Klein said. " And that's what got me upset to begin with." (AND THE BUSH ADMIN KNEW THIS! They LIED to you! Another unconstitutional act making the case for Impeachment. Not much of a suprise though. This is the second big story like this to come to light. Next time someone tells you that Bush is only spying on Terrorists abroad, hit them with this story!)
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