EFF Asks Court to Consider Evidence Proving AT&T, Sprint, Verizon’s Participation in NSA Spying Programs
The Electronic Frontier Foundation presented evidence in two NSA-related cases last week that it said confirms the participation of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T in the NSA’s mass telephone records collection under the PATRIOT Act, and asked the court to…
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consider the new evidence, wrote EFF Frank Stanton Legal Fellow Aaron Mackey in a blog post Friday. “Despite broad public acknowledgement, the government is still claiming that it can dismiss our cases because it has never confirmed that anyone other than Verizon Business participated and that disclosing which providers assist the agency is a state secret,” Mackey said. In EFF’s two lawsuits, Smith v. Obama and First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA, EFF asked the courts to consider Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court filings that were recently made public as evidence proving the phone companies' participation in the NSA’s programs.