A retired AT&T worker at the center of a lawsuit against the telc...
A retired AT&T worker at the center of a lawsuit against the telco filed an amicus brief late Thurs. urging the U.S. Dist. Court, San Francisco to unseal statements he made about the nature of the alleged electronic eavesdropping…
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undertaken by his former employer in connection with the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic spying program. The case involving Klein, who believes AT&T aided the NSA in a widespread intercept of Internet data traffic, is being handled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (CD April 7 p16). Klein worked for AT&T 22 years as a telecom technician. In the brief, his attorneys argue that its “not an overstatement” to say that he’s a “central witness” in the case and his testimony and documents are “key evidence” supporting EFF’s pending motion for a preliminary injunction. AT&T has asked the court to seal certain papers and to force him to return materials, his brief said. The govt. is expected to assert state secrets privilege over some information in the case, the document said. The brief argued that the splitting and rerouting to NSA of fiber optic cables he witnessed on the job is public information. Klein hasn’t sought, and doesn’t intend to seek, money for alleged harm caused by AT&T conduct, the brief said: “His sole interest in this proceeding is seeing to it that the plaintiffs’ grievances are heard by a court of law, and that the unlawful inception of Internet-based communications is halted.”