Totally Scary: PATRIOTism in Action

Watch what you say, people!

A former AT&T employee has come forward with this story, claiming that the National Security Agency set up a secret room in the telecom's San Francisco headquarters "that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T."

...the NSA built a special room to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room containing 'peering links,' or major connections to other telecom providers. The largest of the links delivered 2.5 gigabits of data - the equivalent of one-quarter of the Encyclopedia Britannica's text - per second, said Klein, whose documents and eyewitness account form the basis of one of the first lawsuits filed against the telecom giants after the government's warrantless-surveillance program was reported in the New York Times in December 2005.