The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted

CWmike writes "They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you're dead. The cliché doesn't seem far off the mark after reading Mark Klein's new book, Wiring up the Big Brother Machine ... and Fighting It. It's an account of his experiences as the whistleblower who exposed a secret room at a Folsom Street facility in San Francisco that was apparently used to monitor the Internet communications of ordinary Americans. Amazingly, however, nobody wanted to hear his story. In his book he talks about meetings with reporters and privacy groups that went nowhere until a fateful January 20, 2006 meeting with Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Bankston was preparing a lawsuit that he hoped would put a stop to the wiretap program, and Klein was just the kind of witness the EFF was looking for. He spoke with Robert McMillan for an interview."

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Re:I question a key point from TFA

[tnok85]

Dude, you'd better be careful with this stuff. I know a guy named Jack who got "disappeared" in Alaska recently after posting some controversial stuff on /.

Re:and hardly anyone seems to be commenting here..

[Anne Thwacks]

Anyone know where I can buy this book in the UK?

Be very careful: In the UK, you can be arrested for knowing where to buy the book