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AT&T engineer says Bush Administration sought to implement domestic spying within two weeks of taking office

Nearly 1,300 words into Sunday's New York Times article revealing new details of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, the lawyer for an AT&T engineer alleges that "within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.”

In a New Jersey federal court case, the engineer claims that AT&T sought to create a phone center that would give the NSA access to "all the global phone and e-mail traffic that ran through" a New Jersey network hub.

“At some point,” he told the paper, “I started feeling something isn’t right.”

"There was no discussion of limiting the monitoring to international communications, he said."