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Titled "AT&T's Implementation of NSA Spying on American Citizens" Wired Magazine today published documents submitted by Mark Klein, which provides a 'firsthand account' which 'tells how he discovered a secret room routing American internet traffic straight to the NSA'. Mark Klein has provided all the documents he says will prove his case. The NSA and AT&T and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are operating under a court imposed gag order, but Mark Klein appears not to be covered. Wired outlines its reasons for going public with the documents here. They have published the complete text in PDF here. Mark Klein's background relative to this situation here. Including a picture of the Secret Room (right), the document shows manuals describing how to slice off a portion of the fiber optic light signals such that information could be read. It details where the equipment was specifically located in one office in San Francisco under AT&T's control and indicates that other such locations exist around the country. The document refers to the possibility that in addition to spying AT&T and or the government used this information not only as a means for fighting Al Qaeda but also as a means to bust up a union. The supporting documents focus on the fact that WorldNet customers were definitely targeted (see your DSL bill and look for the name of the actual provider), but also other major providers probably were spied on as well. The technology was there to monitor the entire internet.