New Case Says AT&T Is Helping the NSA Spy on Americans

EFF says it can back up its claims with evidence from "internal AT&T documents." The suit also alleges that the NSA domestic spying program is essentially a "vast fishing expedition" directed at everyone in America -- a data mining program using voice recognition software and the NSA's vast array of computers to scan more or less every phone call entering or exiting the United States.

Of course, that description contradicts the Bush Administration's vague defenses of "targeted and focused" surveillance directed only at terrorists, setting up an important showdown in court.

My colleagues and I at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed one of the first federal cases against the government challenging the NSA's illegal spying (CCR v. Bush), and the EFF case presents important questions about whether American companies are also playing an active role in the NSA's illegal surveillance. So while the CCR suit asks the court to halt the NSA Program by ordering the government to halt the program, the EFF also seeks damages against AT&T.

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