[Infowarrior] - NOW Preview 2/16: Is the Government Reading Your Email?

[Richard Forno]

    Is the Government Reading Your Email?
    NOW

    PBS Airtime: Friday, February 16, 2007, at 8:30 p.m. on PBS (check local
listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html.)

    Accusations that the American government spies on private citizen
emails. Next time on NOW.

    Is the government reading your email? On February 16 at 8:30 p.m. (check
local listings), NOW reports on new evidence suggesting the existence of a
secret government program that intercepts millions of private emails each
day in the name of terrorist surveillance. News about the alleged program
came to light when a former AT&T employee, Mark Klein, blew the whistle on
what he believes to be a large-scale installation of secret
Internet-monitoring equipment deep inside AT&T's San Francisco office. The
equipment, he contends, was created at the request of the US Government to
spy on email traffic across the entire Internet. Though the government and
AT&T refuse to address the issue directly, Klein backs up his charges with
internal company documents and personal photos.

    Criminal Defense Lawyer Nancy Hollander, who represents several
Muslim-Americans, feels her confidential emails are anything but secure.
"I've personally never been afraid of my government until now. And now I
feel personally afraid that I could be locked up tomorrow," she told NOW.

    Who might be eyeing the hundreds of millions of emails Americans send
out each day, and to what end? Next time on NOW.

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    The NOW website at www.pbs.org/now will provide additional coverage
starting Friday morning, February 16, including an interview with the WIRED
reporter who broke the whistleblower story and more details about these
incredible allegations.