Added: Mar 10, 2008
From: thesloth2001ca
Duration: 9:8
In 2005, Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, brought to public attention documents which showed that the National Security Agency had obtained copies of Internet traffic flowing through an AT&T facility in San Francisco and through several other AT&T locations across the country. This led to public outcry over the US government's warrantless wiretapping program, and a lawsuit against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation . At the 2008 EFF Pioneer Awards ceremony during the O'Reilly ETech conference, the EFF honored Klein's whistleblowing efforts. In this interview at the awards ceremony, Klein and EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn speak to us about efforts to persuade lawmakers not to grant legal immunity to telecoms that may have broken the law while helping the government in anti-terrorism efforts.
Channel: News
Tags: dragnet fisa nsa operation spy warrantless wiretaps
Rating: 5.00 (3 ratings) Views: 257 Comments: 1
centure7 Says:
Jun 29, 2008 - Absolutely shameful. All of congress wants a police state. Wiretapping everyone in the US... no problem... we are all guilty until proven innocent. How dare Americans allow their this congress to do this? I blame it entirely on the American general population, who continue to re-elect their congress-people!