Court Filing Confirms Spy Docs
The NSA eavesdropping case just keeps getting more interesting by the day. Today, the judge presiding over the case ordered documents to be released in redacted form.
Much of the wording in the redacted text of Klein’s affidavit (.pdf), which was published in the court docket Thursday afternoon, matches language in the statement published Monday by Wired News.
Technical details in the newly released documents also mesh with the documents published by Wired News. Additionally, both sets of documents refer to an employee who was cleared by the NSA to work in the room, but who was later laid off by AT&T as part of a downsizing. This shared detail, along with others, was not part of Klein’s only previous public statement, which was released by his lawyer in early April and printed in full by Wired News.
It would appear that the information provided by whistle-blower Mark Klein is authentic and that the NSA has been conducting surveillance on American citizens, in direct violation of their charter. But that does not mean the case will continue with a certainty as the judge presiding over the it will review the government and AT&T’s motions to dismiss the case on the grounds of national security.
Hello,
Just wanted to let you know I linked to your blog in my column on CBSNews.com today. Thanks!
If you want to take a look, here’s the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/30/blogophile/main1664600.shtml
Thanks,
Melissa
Melissa,
Thanks very much for including a link to Crypto Resync in your blog post. Much appreciated, especially since this is showing up on CBS News.
Nice article, BTW.
Scott
Watch subject. Bush goes ballistic about other countries being evil and dangerous, because they have weapons of mass destruction. But, he insists on building up even a more deadly supply of nuclear arms right here in the US. What do you think? What is he doing to us, and what is he doing to the world?
Are we safer today than we were before?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.