Big Brother Shacks Up With Ma Bell

April, 2008

THE NSA IS USING AT&T DATA STREAMS TO WATCH USWhen The New York Times broke the story in Decem­ber 2005 that the supersecret National Security Agency, without warrants, was tapping the phones and reading the e-mail of U.S. citizens, the Bush administra­tion went on the defensive, saying the agency was only stretch­ing its mandate—to monitor overseas communications—in order to catch terrorists.But when former AT&T technician Mark Klein heard the president claim this domestic spying affected only...