AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.
This was to be expected especially with all those Patriot Act shinanigans.
Wired News: Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
And not long after the EFF started to put a stop to this, Big brother comes in to protect its right to stomp all over the Bill of Rights:
The Bush administration formally said Friday that it will try to halt a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans illegally… The state secrets privilege, outlined by the Supreme Court in a 1953 case, permits the government to derail a lawsuit that might otherwise lead to the disclosure of military secrets.
Bush administration invokes “state secrets” in suit against NSA
So much for civil rights.
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