At 2:00 AM EST this morning, Wired News published primary documents incriminating the NSA and AT&T in a clandestine surveillance operation by the government to monitor the internet.

According to former AT&T technician Mark Klein, inside secret rooms cached away in AT&T buildings, splitters rerouted fiber optic signals so individual messages could be examined by high-security ranking individuals.

Sayeth Wired: “This is the infrastructure for an Orwellian police state. It must be shut down!”

“Whistle-Blower’s Evidence, Uncut” [Wired]

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