[Kzyxtalk] AT&T Whistleblower on Company's Partnership with NSA -- on KMEC Radio, Monday, August 24, at 1 p..m., Pacific Time

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AT&T Whistleblower on Company's Partnership with NSA -- on KMEC Radio, Monday, August 24, at 1 p.m., Pacific Time 




KMEC Radio is pleased to bring ATT whistleblower, Mark Klein, to our show tomorrow at KMEC Radio. We broadcast live at 1 p.m.,, Pacific Time. 




BACKGROUND 




AT&T Whistleblower on Company's Partnership with NSA. 




Last week, the New York Times and ProPublica published "AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale," which states: "The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. 

"While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as 'highly collaborative,' while another lauded the company’s 'extreme willingness to help.' ... 




"The documents, provided by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden, were jointly reviewed by the New York Times and ProPublica. The N.S.A., AT&T and Verizon declined to discuss the findings from the files. 'We don’t comment on matters of national security,' an AT&T spokesman said. ... 

"After the Times disclosed the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in December 2005, plaintiffs began trying to sue AT&T and the N.S.A. In a 2006 lawsuit, a retired AT&T technician named Mark Klein claimed that three years earlier, he had seen a secret room in a company building in San Francisco where the N.S.A. had installed equipment." 




MARK KLEIN 




Klein was an AT&T technician who in 2006 blew the whistle on AT&T's cooperation with the NSA. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein 




In 2009, his book Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It was published. In his book, Klein tells the story of the illegal government spying apparatus installed at an AT&T office by the National Security Agency, and his battle to bring it to light and protect Americans’ 4th Amendment rights. After the New York Times revealed in 2005 that the NSA was spying on Americans’ phone calls and e-mail without Constitutionally-required court warrants, the Bush administration openly defended this practice which also violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. All details of the highly secret program remained hidden from the public—until Klein came forward. A technician for over 22 years at telecom giant AT&T, Klein was working in the Internet room in San Francisco in 2003 and discovered the NSA was vacuuming everyone’s communications into a secret room, and he had the documents to prove it (sample pages included). He went to the media in 2006, and then became a witness in a lawsuit brought against the company by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 




Klein said today about the breaking story of At&T partnership with the NSA: "The documents prove I was right, and if a court had been willing to allow the Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit against AT&T to go forward, we would have won. But Congress knowingly put a retroactive pseudo-'legal' stamp on the violations of law and the Constitution, and the courts accepted it. Both parties are to blame, all three branches of government are culpable. 

"I'd gotten my story out through the New York Times in April 2006 after the Los Angeles Times had killed it. The editor who killed the story was Dean Baquet -- who is now executive editor at the New York Times. 




"Obama had campaigned against immunizing the telcos, but by the time the vote happened in 2008, he had sewn up the nomination and switched sides. It was a betrayal even before he got to the White House. 




"The entire congressional leadership pushed this, especially the 'gang of eight' who were the ones who actually knew what the immunity was about. My own senator, Dianne Feinstein, who was on the intelligence committee, wouldn't even speak with me, she was all about covering up for the NSA. 




"Many in congress who voted for the immunity blindly voted to immunize a crime details of which they didn't know or didn't want to know. 




"It wasn't just AT&T of course, it was that the Bush administration had brazenly violated FISA and of course the Constitution. They didn't have a legal leg to stand on, which is why they needed the immunity." 




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Mark Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician who leaked knowledge of his company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing... 
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