New Proof: AT&T and NSA’s Long Surveillance Partnership shredded 4th Amendment

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http://www.juancole.com/2015/08/surveillance-partnership-amendment.html

New Proof: AT&T and NSA’s Long Surveillance Partnership shredded 4th Amendment
By contributors | Aug. 16, 2015
By Mark Rumold | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – –

Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF’s Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008—that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastructure, resulting in unconstitutional seizure and search of of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Americans’ Internet communications.

“These documents not only further confirm our claims in Jewel, but convincingly demolish the government’s core response—that EFF cannot prove that AT&T’s facilities were used in the mass surveillance,” said EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. ”It’s long past time that the NSA and AT&T came clean with the American people. It’s also time that the public U.S. courts decide whether these modern general searches are consistent with the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure.”

The reports provide detailed accounts of both the breadth of the NSA’s access to AT&T’s networks and the evidence that definitively establishes that AT&T is one of the “corporate partners” referenced in the NSA’s documents.

The documents note AT&T’s “extreme willingness to help” with NSA’s surveillance within the United States, some of which appears to be done in “partnership,” rather than required by law. Here’s how the Times describes the breadth of NSA’s access to AT&T’s networks:

AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T.

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IIRC, AT&T gave access to one of the (internets) domain controllers in California. Since all network traffic flows across domain controllers, NSA scooped up all our phone calls courtesy of AT&T.

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