AT&T/NSA Whistle-Blower's Evidence
 

Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
Inside the Secret Room

In a public statement Klein issued last month, he described the NSA's visit to an AT&T office. In an older, less-public statement recently acquired by Wired News, Klein goes into additional details of his discovery of an alleged surveillance operation in an AT&T building in San Francisco.

Klein supports his claim by attaching excerpts of three internal company documents: a Dec. 10, 2002, manual titled "Study Group 3, LGX/Splitter Wiring, San Francisco," a Jan. 13, 2003, document titled "SIMS, Splitter Cut-In and Test Procedure" and a second "Cut-In and Test Procedure" dated Jan. 24, 2003.

Here we present Klein's statement in its entirety, with inline links to all of the document excerpts where he cited them. You can also download the complete file here (pdf). The full AT&T documents are filed under seal in federal court in San Francisco.

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I used to work for Pacific Bell (Which became SBC and is now AT&T again). The office I worked at housed the switching station for all telephone lines in the area code. A number of times a week law enforcement of all levels was in our office, installing equiptment and basically tapping phone lines.

So telling me that the NSA showed up at the AT&T offices means nothing to me. As for the documentation, yes, I'm sure there are such documents saying "this is how to tap into a phone line using this system" because it's done on a regular basis.

Being as I don't talk to terrorists and don't do anything illegal, I could less who in the government has access to my phone records. What worries me much more is the fact that anyone can purchase records of my transactions and payments to banks and credit card companies. This is already perfectly legal.