Details emerge on second potential NSA facility

[NVMojo]

Published: 2006-06-21

Two former AT&T employees have fingered a room in the telecommunications company's building near St. Louis as a likely center for wiretapping and Internet monitoring by the National Security Agency, according to a Salon.com article.

The two employees, who were not named in the article, said the room had a sophisticated set of double security doors, known as a "mantrap," and any engineer who worked inside required extensive security clearances. While the article does not provide conclusive evidence that the room represents a surveillance operation by the secretive NSA, several intelligence experts and a former NSA analyst quoted in the article said the description contains all the hallmarks of such an operation.

The latest evidence of extensive surveillance of both phone calls and Internet activity by the military agency responsible for protecting the United States' communications and cracking the messages of foreign enemies and competitors comes as AT&T readies itself to answer to a federal judge in a California lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In an apparent response to the lawsuits against the company, AT&T has revised its privacy policy to clarify that the data it collects on users belongs to the telco.

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[PDittie]

1. K&R eom

[QuettaKid]

2. what happened to that other thread about this?

it was here about a month ago....?

[MountainLaurel]

3. Perhaps it was archived?

And you have to do an advanced search, I think, to look through those.

[3waygeek]

8. Either that

or Agent Mike paid a little visit :tinfoilhat:

[WhiteTara]

4. k&r

I wonder how many of these rooms exist around the country. Prolly one in every region?

[NYC]

5. Excellent question.

There used to be one in New York. Read The Puzzle Palace &/or Body of Secrets both by James Bamford.

They just can't resist spying on us.

[KansDem]

6. Bush was warned about Osama...

Why didn't he spy on him? Perhaps 9/11 could have been stopped.

But Bush was spying on Americans instead. Millions of Americans.

He only had to spy on one man...Osama.

Why didn't he???

[Supersedeas]

7. but will the Media which is sponsored by AT&T et al, bother to report

[NVMojo]

10. For being good little spies, AT&T will get a bill to kill net neutrality

[alfredo]

9. Big brother is watching, and listening