Why the close collaboration between NSA & AT&T matters

These recently released documents could give new life to Jewel v NSA. For years, James "I lie to Congress and get away with it" Clapper and his ilk have tried to make the EFF look like the lunatic fringe for backing the claims made in Mark Klein's testimony. The feds have managed to quash almost every investigation into their warrantless wiretapping under the tired guise of endangering national security, often with no substantive evidence; just the claim alone is enough to scare off most jurists. https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-the-close-collaboration-between... The EFF will be submitting these documents in support of Jewel v NSA. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/eff-claims-government-spying-atts-help... -S