AT&T Hits Setback In Court Wednesday
A court ruled Wednesday that AT&T cannot recover and surpress internal documents that Mark Klein says is the evidence that shows AT&T conspired with the NSA.
(Wired)he rejected AT&T's motion asking the court to order EFF to return the documents to the company, noting, "Plaintiffs say they got the documents innocently, therefore, their possession is in no way improper and in no way illegal."
He also rejected AT&T's request for the judge to enjoin Klein from talking about the documents or providing them to others, saying that AT&T could sue the whistle-blower on its own.
The documents appear to show AT&T tapping into 16 fiber-optic cables connecting the company's WorldNet internet backbone to other internet service providers, and routing the traffic to a sophisticated data-analysis system made by California-based Narus.
In a written statement accompanying the pages, whistle-blower Klein says the Narus system was installed in a secret locked room inside an AT&T switching center in San Francisco that was off-limits to anyone without NSA clearance.
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