NSA Whistleblower Gets Ignored by Everyone

When the New York Times revealed in December of 2005 that the U.S. government was eavesdropping on citizens’ telephone and e-mail conversations without warrants, a retired AT&T technician named Mark Klein knew he had physical evidence showing how the feds had been stealing information from AT&T’s network.

The NSA is still listening to you

Strangely, though, nobody gave him the time of day.

According to Klein, even the LA Times, which had been set to run his story in early 2006, mysteriously killed it after speaking with the government. After January of 2006, though, when Klein met Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, his story began to get the publicity it deserved.

Klein has just self-published a book entitled ‘Wiring Up the Big Brother Machine… And Fighting It,’ which tells his story and shows the documents that first exposed the NSA wiretapping program. IDG News recently had a chance to talk with Klein about his struggles to get his story told, and it’s well worth a read. This may all sound like an outline for ‘Enemy of the State 2,’ but we assure you it’s all frighteningly real. [From: IDG/Computerworld] Source

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