September 20th, 2008

Attorney General Pulls Immunity Trigger, Denies 'Dragnet' Surveillance -- Update

By David Kravets, Wired News

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Saturday denied that the Bush administration -- in conjunction with the nation's telecommunication companies -- devised a "dragnet" electronic surveillance program that funneled Americans' communications to the National Security Agency without court warrants...

The lawsuit was brought in 2006 by the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF's lawsuit includes documents from a former AT&T technician that the EFF claims describe a secret room in an AT&T building in San Francisco that is wired up to share raw internet traffic with the NSA.

Related Issues: NSA Spying

Related Cases: Hepting v. AT&T

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