{"id":18461,"date":"2015-08-15T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T22:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18461"},"modified":"2015-08-15T17:49:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T22:49:18","slug":"nytimes-att-helped-u-s-spy-on-internet-traffic-files-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18461","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: AT&#038;T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet Traffic, Files Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/16\/us\/politics\/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\">AT&#038;T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet Traffic, Files Reveal<\/a> by Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Newly disclosed documents show that the National Security Agency gained access to billions of emails through a \u201chighly collaborative\u201d relationship with AT&#038;T.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The N.S.A.\u2019s top-secret budget in 2013 for the AT&#038;T partnership was more than twice that of the next-largest such program, according to the documents. The company installed surveillance equipment in at least 17 of its Internet hubs on American soil, far more than its similarly sized competitor, Verizon. And its engineers were the first to try out new surveillance technologies invented by the eavesdropping agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: AT&#038;T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet Traffic, Files Reveal by Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen: Newly disclosed documents show that the National Security Agency gained access to billions of emails through &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18464,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461\/revisions\/18464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}