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Whistleblower: L.A. Times Heeded Government Request to Quash Internet Spy Story

HeadlineMar 07, 2007

A whistleblower who helped reveal government spying on the Internet has discovered the Los Angeles Times aborted breaking the story at the request of the Bush administration. The whisteblower, Mark Klein, is a former technician at AT&T. Last year, Klein revealed the National Security Agency had set up secret spy rooms in several AT&T offices. In an interview with ABC News, Klein says he worked with an L.A. Times reporter for two months to reveal the secret program. But Klein says editors killed the story at the request of then-National Intelligence Director John Negroponte and then-NSA Director General Michael Hayden. He then went to The New York Times.

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