Edward Snowden on surveillance: what the evidence says · JRE #1368
SUBJECT: SURVEILLANCE
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
You can have, like, the Juul versus NSA case that's run by the EFF, which is about AT&T setting up secret rooms in their telecommunications facilities where they basically drag all the fibers for their domestic internet communications
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Jewel v. NSA is a real class-action lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 2008 against the National Security Agency and other defendants, alleging an illegal, warrantless dragnet surveillance program conducted with the cooperation of major telecommunications carriers, including AT&T. The suit built on evidence first disclosed in 2006 by former AT&T technician Mark Klein, who described a secret facility, publicly known as Room 641A, at an AT&T switching center in San Francisco where fiber-optic splitters copied domestic internet traffic for delivery to the NSA. Klein's account became central evidence in related litigation and in congressional debate over retroactive telecom immunity. Snowden's characterization of the case and the AT&T facility is substantively accurate, though he mispronounces 'Jewel' as 'Juul.' The Jewel v. NSA lawsuit itself was ultimately dismissed on standing grounds by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2021, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a further appeal in June 2022, meaning the underlying surveillance allegations were never adjudicated on the merits, though the existence of the case and the factual basis for it (Klein's whistleblower disclosures) are well documented.