Big brother is watching you.
When the news media finds out what extensive spying the bushies have been doing on them I wonder if they will still give them a free pass on everything. When the republican members of congress find out junior has been not only spying on democrats but them too will they still support the one party police state bush/rove have planned for us?
Another inch of the iceberg comes out of the water.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Salon.com Exclusive: AT&T may be hiding a second NSA domestic spying operation in St. Louis
by John in DC - 6/21/2006 12:01:00 AM
Seriously. That company needs to be made a lesson of and taken down.
It looks like they may be spying on our Internet traffic from this facility, or at the very least on the Internet traffic of all of their customers.
In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center.
In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T's facility in Bridgeton. The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were "monitoring network traffic" and that the room was being used by "a government agency."
The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton room bear the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the National Security Agency, according to two intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of the NSA and its operations. In addition to the room's high-tech security, those intelligence experts told Salon, the exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers were put through before being granted top-secret security clearance points to the NSA, an agency known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological sophistication....
The importance of the Bridgeton facility is its role in managing the "common backbone" for all of AT&T's Internet operations. According to one of the former workers, Bridgeton serves as the technical command center from which the company manages all the routers and circuits carrying the company's domestic and international Internet traffic. Therefore, Bridgeton could be instrumental for conducting surveillance or collecting data.
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