What do the cases claim about the interception of domestic communications of millions of Americans?
The cases allege that the government, in coordination with AT&T, intercepts communications (like phone calls and emails), and that AT&T illegally discloses communications records to the government.The core component of the surveillance is the government’s nationwide network of sophisticated communications surveillance equipment, attached to the key facilities of telecommunications companies such as AT&T that carry Americans’ internet and telephone communications. Through this shadow network of surveillance devices, the government has acquired and continue to acquire the content of the phone calls, emails, instant messages, text messages and web communications, both international and domestic, of practically every American who uses the phone system or the internet in an unprecedented suspicionless general search through the nation’s communications networks.
