{"id":3970,"date":"2007-11-08T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:40:04","slug":"nsa-monitors-all-web-traffic-ex-att-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/nsa-monitors-all-web-traffic-ex-att-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA monitors all web traffic: ex-AT&#038;T tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/big-brother-bush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/big-brother-bush.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>David Edwards and Jason Rhyne,<strong> <\/strong>Raw Story<\/p>\n<p>A former technician at AT&amp;T, who <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Story?id=3833172&#038;page=1\">alleges <\/a>that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a &#8220;secret room&#8221; to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on MSNBC&#8217;s <em>Countdown<\/em> program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of all internet traffic passing over AT&amp;T lines was copied into a locked room at the company&#8217;s San Francisco office &#8212; to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access &#8212; via a cable splitting device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My job was to connect circuits into the splitter device which was hard-wired to the secret room,&#8221; said Klein. &#8220;And effectively, the splitter copied the entire data stream of those internet cables into the secret room &#8212; and we&#8217;re talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Edwards and Jason Rhyne, Raw Story A former technician at AT&amp;T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a &#8220;secret room&#8221; to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell&#8217;s 1984. 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