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Purported internal company documents describing what an AT&T whistle-blower has alleged is a secret system allowing the National Security Agency to snoop into innumerable e-mail messages have been published online by Wired News.

The Web site, www.wired.com, claims to have published the full documents submitted by Mark Klein, the star witness in a case brought against the telecommunications giant by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Klein, an AT&T technician for 22 years until he left in 2004, has said previously he saw equipment installed at the company's San Francisco facility in 2003 that would allow the National Security Agency to screen huge volumes of customers' Internet messages.

The documents that Klein said supported his claim were ordered held under seal last week by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker while he considered the government's assertion that the group's lawsuit endangers state secrets.

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