Wired News Violates Court Order, leaks FULL AT&T NSA spying documents!

[kpete]

Wired News Violates Court Order, leaks FULL AT&T NSA spying documents!

Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut

02:00 AM May, 22, 2006

Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.

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Here we present Klein's statement in its entirety, with inline links to all of the document excerpts where he cited them. You can also download the complete file here (pdf). The full AT&T documents are filed under seal in federal court in San Francisco.

all links to ALL documents here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70944-0.html
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/att_klein_wired.pdf

WIRED : Why We Published the AT&T Docs

AT&T claims information in the file is proprietary and that it would suffer severe harm if it were released.

Based on what we've seen, Wired News disagrees. In addition, we believe the public's right to know the full facts in this case outweighs AT&T's claims to secrecy.

As a result, we are publishing the complete text of a set of documents from the EFF's primary witness in the case, former AT&T employee and whistle-blower Mark Klein -- information obtained by investigative reporter Ryan Singel through an anonymous source close to the litigation. The documents, available on Wired News as of Monday, consist of 30 pages, with an affidavit attributed to Klein, eight pages of AT&T documents marked "proprietary," and several pages of news clippings and other public information related to government-surveillance issues.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70947-0.html

[unhappycamper]

1. Ballsey move. SAVE A COPY OF THIS PDF TO YOUR HARD DRIVE!

You can bet your booties Agent Mike & crew will make this dissapear or subtly alter the online version.

It's gonna be tough to alter thousands of copies on thousands of computers.

Hats off to wired.com!!!!!!

K :kick:&R

[lala_rawraw]

3. the documents are down... did anyone save?

[TayTay]

7. I just got them

there was a 30 page .pdf. Is this it?

[kpete]

9. I am not sure here are some links - are they all from the PDF?

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70621-0.html

http://blog.wired.com/klein_evidence/

http://blog.wired.com/klein_evidence2/

http://blog.wired.com/klein_evidence3/

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/att_klein_wired.pdf

http://blog.wired.com/klein_evidence/

[lala_rawraw]

15. send this to every member of Congress

and every media outlet b4 it gets buried

[Mr_Spock]

38. I just saved the PDF to my HD

It was 29 pages, not 30 though.

[alfredo]

44. I was going to suggest this. We need to do this for all the patriots

who are fighting the junta.

We need to set up P2P networks if they are able to fuck up the internet as a medium for the free flow of info.

Learn Morse code, learn strong encryption, get your ham license. Learn alternate forms of communication.

Decider is another word for Dictator.

[Richard Steele]

46. Saved a copy! kick.

[nickgutierrez]

2. Now, this is an interesting twist.

I've downloaded the documents - it'll be interesting to see if they stay up, and for how long.

[lala_rawraw]

4. can you email them to me?

[unhappycamper]

8. just checked & the pdf is still available. n/t

[originalpckelly]

5. Down with big brother!!!(n/t)

[Touchdown]

37. In this case it's Big Ma. n/t

[dogday]

6. If the Administration wants to attack the press

then they need to be prepared for the backlash against them by the Press... They can't have it both ways...

[Democrat 4 Ever]

11. Here is the direct link to the pdf file.

Save it to your hard drive - don't want this one to get away.

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/att_klein_wired.pdf

[katinmn]

22. Done. Thanks!

[dogday]

28. Thank you for this

:hi:

[derby378]

45. Oh, I'm sure it'll wind up in the proper hands...

Power to the people!

:headbang:

[NJ_Lib]

54. I tried four times to save and each time it came out...

... encrypted, or something... Unreadable... Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[Supersedeas]

65. thanks for the linkie

[mod mom]

10. A salute to WIRED:

:patriot:

and

:yourock:

[lala_rawraw]

18. we need to get them cover...

post everywhere, so they cannot be demanded to pull it because it won't matter... i sent to my entire press list and members of Congress, you guys do the same and post in every forum

[mod mom]

40. Post 14. Sent to contacts that work with Conyers.

[TechBear_Seattle]

12. I tried to put it on my own website, but...

There is an "embedded font" that refuses to come along for the ride, and the document comes off my site as garbage. Suggestions?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

13. Actions like these may save the internet.

nm

[mod mom]

14. Sent to House Judiciary Dem Staff legal aides.

[paparush]

16. Damn!! Klein spilled ALL of the beans

Including address of the "secret room". What cabinet contains the splitter. Detail after detail!!

Damn straight!!

[Guaranteed]

17. Why aren't THESE kinds of things reported on the news???

Why the fuck do we get so much watered-down GARBAGE? Irrelevant crap??

Why don't they just show the damned documents???? Or even MENTION this??

Who was that poet in the 60's...Robert...Robert somebody....and what was it he said?

"Why not just say what happened?"

[Jim Sagle]

74. What have you got against missing blondes?

:-)

[DemReadingDU]

19. K&R for Mark Klein!

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. Diebold's excuse for cover up/stealing votes= Software is "Proprietary"

AT&T excuse for illegally sharing customer's private information/illegal SPYING = File is "Proprietary"......HELLO! Calling Patrick Fitzgerald!

IMPEACH THESE PEOPLE, would you please?

[lala_rawraw]

21. Also, start getting all the info on Narus you can find

Because the scrubbing will begin ... get notes on sec filings, Bush crony relationships, cross references with other comps like Nuestar... someone should take lead on organizing this research... for example, create sub areas and have each person take a sub-area

suggestion:
-cross reference with companies such as Nuestar, Diebold, ChoicePoint
-SEC filings
-Bush crony connection
-Compnay leadership profiles


etc.

[Fiendish Thingy]

23. Klien=Ellesberg (Pentagon Papers)

Wow, is he ever brave.

I bet Gonzalez wishes he didn't open his mouth on national TV, and had kept his intimidation through backchannels to editors and publishers...
(I know, Klien isn't a reporter, but still)
Hopefully, this will inspire someone to go digging for info with the other telco's

as Kris Kristofferson wrote:
"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"

[katinmn]

24. Thank you Mark Klein and Wired News!!

:patriot:

[Boo Boo]

25. For those having trouble finding the doc, it's not down. Just click the

PDF link in the original post and you'll get 1.7 Mb of Klein-ness, uncut.

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. DARPA! POINDEXTER! Remember the DARPA program that was SUPPOSEDLY SCRAPPED

?????!!!!!! Apparently, THAT was ANOTHER FREAKIN' LIE!




In 2003 AT&T built “secret rooms” hidden deep in the bowels of its central
offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which
taps into the company's popular WorldNet service and the entire Internet. These
installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the Internet
and analyze exactly what people are doing. Documents showing the hardwire installation
in San Francisco suggest that there are similar locations being installed in numerous other
cities.
The physical arrangement, the timing of its construction, the governmentimposed
secrecy surrounding it, and other factors all strongly suggest that its origins are
rooted in the Defense Department's “Total Information Awareness” (TIA) program
which brought forth vigorous protests from defenders of Constitutionally-protected civil
liberties last year:
“As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, has described
the system in Pentagon documents and in speeches, it will provide
intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to
information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and
banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant.”
--The New York Times, 9 November 2002
To mollify critics, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
spokesmen have repeatedly asserted that they are only conducting “research” using
“artificial synthetic data” or information from “normal DoD intelligence channels” and
hence there are “no U.S. citizen privacy implications” (Department of Defense, Office of
the Inspector General report on TIA, December 12, 2003). They also changed the name
of the program to “Terrorism Information Awareness” to make it more politically
palatable. But feeling the heat, Congress made a big show of allegedly cutting off
funding for TIA in late 2003, and the political fallout resulted in Admiral Poindexter's
abrupt resignation last August. However, the fine print reveals that Congress eliminated
funding only for “the majority of the TIA components,” allowing several “components”
to continue (DoD, ibid). The essential hardware elements of a TIA-type spy program are
being surreptitiously slipped into “real world” telecommunications offices.

[lala_rawraw]

27. The author of the piece... is this a relation?

Casamassima, Salvatore J.,
Exxon Corp. Pat. Dept., P.O. Box 2180, Houston, TX 77252

[progressivebydesign]

43. THIS is why many of us have found DoD trolling our computers.

REmember a few months ago when many of us found a DoD address remotely accessing our computers? There ya go!

[NJ_Lib]

56. How can you tell? n/t

[Liberty Belle]

71. How do I find out if DOD trolled my computer?

[Pab Sungenis]

29. K&R.

Save the PDF to your hard drives while you still can. Print ten copies, keep one in a safe place, and mail the others to media outlets. Burn CD-R's and leave them laying around in public places labelled "HOW BUSH IS ILLEGALLY SPYING ON YOU. DETAILS INSIDE."

DO NOT LET THEM SHOVE THIS DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE!

[hobbit709]

30. Amazing, isn't it?

Whenever some corporation gets involved in something crooked, they claim "proprietary" to keep anyone from seeing what they do.

[bluerum]

31. "Proprietary" is the corporate version of "National security." Cover

for their illegal and despicable acts against the people.

[eShirl]

32. PDF on peer-to-peer network now (torrent)

http://www.mininova.org/tor/317362

edit: please download and seed, if you can!
(if you don't know what that means, nevermind :) )

[Pab Sungenis]

34. In case they kill mininova

(and they're trying...the RIAA and MPAA at least) I'm making the torrent file available on my server as well:

http://cnx.com/att_klein_wired.pdf.torrent

Paste copies on every other site you know of.

[eShirl]

36. sweet! n/t

<3

[Pierre.Suave]

55. If I get it downloaded...

...I will seed.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

33. kick!

[hvn_nbr_2]

35. Freedom and democracy are not proprietary. Period.

If a corporation's claims of proprietary ownership conflict with freedom and democracry, then freedom and democracy prevail in a free democracry. Only in a fascist corporatocracy do proprietary claims trump freedom and democrary.

[JPZenger]

39. Still Available - download a copy while you can

[nolabels]

41. A kleptocracy has no signifying redeeming values

It wants to steal everything there ever was or going to be. It cares not for anyone that comes after it or before. The words and the ideas of freedom and democracy it would even try to steal if it could package them for a quick sell.

[Bucky]

42. "Save this file before the government shuts it down" --how sad for America

Remember the land of the free? I'm so tired of it.

[file83]

75. No longer "Land of the Free". Now, it's "Land of the Expensive Lawyers."

[Up2Late]

47. Great! Long live the Whistle-blower!

Maybe one day, these guys will all go to prison (the illegal spy people, that is).

[pnorman]

48. I got some piece-meal 'saves' that were all but useless,

but I finally got the complete 29 page .pdf file on my HD. As a "freebie" premium from my Salon subscription, I've been getting Wired for a while. Usually, I'd just skim through it and pass it on. But I'll show it a lot more respect from here on. HATS OFF TO WIRED!

pnorman

[1monster]

49. That PDF just froze up my computer twice when I tried to download it.

I'm going to try the html now....

[Joe Fields]

82. It froze my computer, also.

I was able to download the entire file, but was reading the file, when I linked to page 10, where he describes how the splicing was done in the San Francisco office. Immediately after I linked, my computer froze.

I went back to Wired News, and was not able to link back to the PDF file. I checked to see if the file I downloaded worked and luckily it is saved. But wired News' link doesn't work anymore.

Scary.

[rman]

50. Has there ever been this much leaking?

It seems someone leaks a 'Pentagon Paper' every other day.

[AzDar]

51. Amazing and inspiring... n/t

[kpete]

52. talkleft has the docs at:

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014909.html

[titoresque]

53. kick!!!!

[Pierre.Suave]

57. I am seeding

The .pdf file get it while its hot through the link posted above.

[me b zola]

58. Got it. Am reading through it now

:wow:

[Melissa G]

59. k-n-r ! kpete ,You ROCK! n/t

[NanceGreggs]

60. K'd & R'd!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[lovuian]

61. I agree the public needs to know

this is not right...

[hunter]

62. We the people terrify them...

Deep in their hidey holes they listen to us and they are afraid.

Truth will out them and they will whither away like vampires in the sunlight.

[autorank]

63. K&R. Wired...doesn't surprise me. They're REAL journalises...

...always have been.

Thanks!

[Garbo 2004]

64. Thread title not correct: Wired didn't violate a court order.

There's a gag order on parties to the case; it is not a prohibition against media publishing the material.

[Nothing Without Hope]

66. Send it to Keith Olbermann, Lou Dobbs, Jack Cafferty, anyone who might

speak out about it

[Nothing Without Hope]

67. very important final paragraph of article - ONLY EFF WAS IN GAG ORDER:

Last paragraph in the Wired article on this release:

The court's gag order is very specific in barring only the EFF, its representatives and its technical experts from discussing and disseminating this information. The court explicitly rejected AT&T's motion to include Klein in the gag order and declined AT&T's request to force the EFF to return the documents.

Looks like we non-EFF folks can spread the word, and so can media people like Keith Olbermann if he so chooses.

[EFerrari]

79. Good news! n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

68. The WIRED.com blog on these issues is now one of my bookmarks

I recommend you add it too - many important and useful comments and updates:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6

Today they cite Seymour Hersh in a new piece in the New Yorker's Talk of the Town section. Older posts and the comments in them are also meaty.

[originalpckelly]

69. They mentioned this story on CNN during the Situation Room(n/t)

[peacebird]

70. K&R - saved the file also

:toast: to Wired!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

72. Someone On DU Really Needs To Break This Down More.

I read the docs and am in shock. But I'm also in shock as to how little attention this is getting on DU right now.

Is this as big as a story in reality as it seemed to be to me? Is this something that's going to break further? Was this a huge leak or was it already predicted to some degree? What does all this mean? What can we expect to happen? What level of attention is this going to receive? Is this just a non story or a big one?

I, and I'm sure many other DU'ers, could really use the investigative DU'ers to provide insight to those questions. This story is shocking to me. (though I can't say it comes as a surprise, but to still see it in writing like that, jesus christ.)

[hunter]

78. It's more of a confirmation than anything.

The techs knew -- there have been hot discussions going on for several years now in technical forums, and lots of complaints from old school phone workers as they began to see this weirdness.

The drug dealers knew, the terrorists knew, but the U.S. public is the last to know.

I posted this Feb 03 and I'm probably more cynical about this nation than I was then:

The days of actual, physical "wiretaps" are long past. Nobody has to go down to the telephone exchange and patch into any actual cables -- they simply type in the correct codes (hopefully with a proper warrant) and there they are.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=141&topic_id=19009&mesg_id=19065

It appears now the part about the warrant was wildly optimistic.

You don't fight this kind of crap by playing their game. You don't start using PGP, and meeting with your friends in dark alleys, etc. The bad guys are better at that than you are, they have more practice.

Instead you stand up and face them and tell them they are full of shit.

You are correct OPERATIONMINDCRIME, this is the biggest story on DU today, this is bigger than the comings and goings of any Rove indictment. But I think people are having a little trouble wrapping their minds around it, because it is proof that the rule of law in the United States is broken.

[StellaBlue]

73. Opened, saved

K&R

:kick:

[Kurovski]

76. Kicked and recommended.(nt)

[lildreamer316]

77. Kick n/t

[enigmatic]

80. This is The Pentagon Papers of of this administration

This is huge, folks.

[mom cat]

81. Everyone make copies.