{"id":468,"date":"2007-03-06T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2017-06-06T03:31:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T09:31:46","slug":"whistle-blower-had-to-fight-nsa-la-times-to-tell-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/whistle-blower-had-to-fight-nsa-la-times-to-tell-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to Tell Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/klein_splitter_nr1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/klein_splitter_nr.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Whistle-blower AT&amp;T technician Mark Klein says his effort to reveal alleged government surveillance of domestic Internet traffic was blocked not only by U.S. intelligence officials but also by the top editors of the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p>In his first broadcast interview, which can be seen tonight on World News and Nightline, Klein describes how he stumbled across &#8220;secret NSA rooms&#8221; being installed at an AT&amp;T switching center in San Francisco and later heard of similar rooms in at least six other cities, including Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Jose and Seattle.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;The only people that are being kept in the dark is the American people who are being misled and not realizing, not being told that their private information, that their liberties are being destroyed and tramped on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/whistleblower_h.html\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistle-blower AT&amp;T technician Mark Klein says his effort to reveal alleged government surveillance of domestic Internet traffic was blocked not only by U.S. intelligence officials but also by the top editors of the Los Angeles Times. 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