AT&T 'Spy Room' Documents Unsealed; You've Already Seen Them

"A civil liberties group suing telecom giant AT&T for allegedly installing illegal secret surveillance rooms in its internet facilities at the behest of the National Security Agency published substantial portions of long-sealed case documents Tuesday."

These unwarranted spying and survelliance programs have long been known about. However, it seems that -for now- some positive progress has been made in the federal district court

"The government argues that the case must be thrown out since it involves national security matters, while AT&T says it can't defend itself without spilling classified information. Federal district court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled last July that the case could proceed, because President Bush has admitted the existence of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of Americans' overseas communications."

While I assume this ruling will eventually head upwards, or be appealed, it shows that at least the judicial branch is willing to step up and say "that's enough, Bushie."

I do wonder, though, how much information was collected, and what it was used for. Hopefully this will come out as the case proceeds.

I applaud the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as Wired news -and the other news organizations- who sought to have them unsealed earlier.

Keep it up, guys.



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