Web site posts documents alleging AT&T chamber for 'government spy operation'

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Documents purportedly at the heart of a lawsuit accusing AT&T of collaborating with the National Security Agency to snoop on Americans appeared Monday on the Web, possibly shedding new light on surveillance techniques but also intensifying debate over the publication of leaked documents related to national security.

Wired News posted 29 pages that Editor in Chief Evan Hansen said were obtained from an unnamed source close to the lawsuit brought in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The foundation accuses AT&T of illegally turning over tens of millions of telephone and Internet records to the NSA in what it calls a "massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications."

At the heart of the foundation's suit are documents submitted by Mark Klein, an AT&T technician for 22 years until he left in 2004. Klein said he had seen equipment installed at AT&T's San Francisco headquarters that would allow the NSA to screen huge volumes of customers' data.

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