Reply #47: 'Yes' to your note at the end of your post re the ATT secret switching room in SanFran, etc

[seafan]

Remember this? Whistle-blower says AT&T gave spy agency access to network, April 14, 2006

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Klein said the NSA built a secret room at the company's San Francisco central office in 2003, adjacent to a “switch room where the public's phone calls are routed.” One of the documents under seal, Klein said, shows that a device was installed with the “ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for preprogrammed targets.”

Other so-called secret rooms were constructed at AT&T sites in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, the statement said.

Other documents under seal show that fiber optic cables from the secret room tapped into WorldNet Internet subscribers, Klein said. The documents also instructed technicians how to connect cables to the secret room. Klein said he was required to connect circuits that fed information to the secret room.

The NSA declined directly to address the lawsuit or Klein's allegations, which covered activities at AT&T Corp. before SBC Communications Inc. bought it and became AT&T Inc. late last year.

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