Well, AT&T denied the claim but this morning, Wired News posted documents given to them by Klein of inter-office documents detailing just what the NSA was up to. These documents were secret, filed under seal by the Federal Court of San Francisco in a case brought forth by Klein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The documents were sealed because the judge was considering whether or not the suit could go forth because...yadda, yadda, yadda...war on terror. In a statement detailing why Wired News decided to go ahead and release the documents, Wired basically told AT&T and the government to, in effect, suck on it.

Why this story could be so big is that it deals with all sorts of big issues swirling around the country right now. First off, there was much suspicion in light of the recent NSA story that there was much, much, much more out there. This is if not the other shoe dropping, something dropping. As the documents were supposedly kept under seal, it's also yet one more thing that the government most definitely did not want out there that got out there. Our Attorney General over the weekend said the Government was going to go after members of the press for leaking sensitive information, something backed up by assertions by ABC reporters that they were being investigated by the government for working on a story that the government doesn't quite want out there. And then there's what it means to companies like Google who have previously refused to hand certain things over to the Feds. It might be a moot point now because the NSA was already getting those things.

Then there's the fact that everytime one of these stories gets out there, everyone braces for some big, huge cry of outrage and storming of the castles. It has yet to happen. Maybe once people realize that the Government can now keep track of which porn sites we visit, the illegal downloads we download, and our perusing Craigslist Casual Encounter ads, people might finally say they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore
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