AT&T Customers Sue Bush, Cheney, NSA For "Illegal" Surveillance

September 20, 2008 10:10 a.m. EST

San Francisco, CA (AHN) - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), representing AT&T customers, filed a complaint Friday alleging that the National Security Agency has been illegally spying on individuals' internet and phone usage. Aside from the NSA, the EFF also charged President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for authorizing the illegal surveillance.

EFF said that it has evidence, which was provided by a former AT&T employee, that AT&T has brought copies of Internet traffic to a "secret room" in San Francisco controlled by the NSA, according to Channel Wire.

In 2006, EFF filed a class-action suit against AT&T, which would stop the telecom firm from participating in a state-initiated spying program.

AT&T was given immunity by Congress, which EFF complained to a federal court saying the immunity is unconstitutional.