AT&T Providing "secret rooms for NSA spying on Americans?

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AT&T spy-room in St Louis - whistleblowers Two anonymous ex-AT&T whistleblowers say they worked in a secret room in a backbone administration center in St Louis that appears to have been an NSA spying operation (the NSA isn't supposed to spy on Americans). EFF is suing the AT&T over its role in NSA wiretapping millions of Americans through a switching office in San Francisco.

"In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T's facility in Bridgeton. The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were "monitoring network traffic" and that the room was being used by "a government agency."
The details provided by the two former workers about the Bridgeton room bear the distinctive earmarks of an operation run by the National Security Agency, according to two intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of the NSA and its operations. In addition to the room's high-tech security, those intelligence experts told Salon, the exhaustive vetting process AT&T workers were put through before being granted top-secret security clearance points to the NSA, an agency known as much for its intense secrecy as its technological sophistication."

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