NOW
For Your Eyes Only?
2007 • E307 Mar 21, 2008 30m
This week, NOW reports on new evidence suggesting the existence of a secret government program that intercepts millions of private e-mails each day in the name of terrorist surveillance. News about the alleged program came to light when a former AT&T employee, Mark Klein, blew the whistle on what he believes to be a large-scale installation of secret Internet monitoring equipment deep inside AT&T's San Francisco office. The equipment, he contends, was created at the request of the U.S. government to spy on e-mail traffic across the entire Internet. Though the government and AT&T refuse to address the issue directly, Klein backs up his charges with internal company documents and personal photos.
Program Resources
» Video
» Audio [mp3, 48kbps]:
Stream, Download, Podcast
» Transcript
» Print
» Feedback
» E-mail this page to a friend
Criminal Defense Lawyer Nancy Hollander, who represents several Muslim-Americans, feels her confidential e-mails are anything but secure. "I've personally never been afraid of my government until now. And now I feel personally afraid that I could be locked up tomorrow," she told NOW.
Who might be eyeing the hundreds of millions of e-mails Americans send out each day, and to what end?
Program Resources
» Video
» Audio [mp3, 48kbps]:
Stream, Download, Podcast
» Transcript
» Feedback
» E-mail this page to a friend
Criminal Defense Lawyer Nancy Hollander, who represents several Muslim-Americans, feels her confidential e-mails are anything but secure. "I've personally never been afraid of my government until now. And now I feel personally afraid that I could be locked up tomorrow," she told NOW.
Who might be eyeing the hundreds of millions of e-mails Americans send out each day, and to what end?