Birdseye: AT&T/NSA Wiretapping Room

To comply with National Security Agency (NSA) requests, AT&T has maintained a secret wiretapping room at its switching facility on Folsom street in San Francisco, where internet traffic is routed along fiber-optic circuits. source: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70619-0.html
Domestic warrantless wiretapping is of very questionable legality. The presence of this building downtown demonstrates that as soon as on scratchs the surface, San Francisco has no real lack of facilities employed in spying activity, unethical military contracting, or economic profiteering from U.S. government and private corporate domination overseas.