In that time, AT&T – codenamed Fairview in the documents – reportedly installed surveillance apparatuses at 17 or more of its servers located in the US. They claim the story is news because it provides proof – proof, I tell you – that AT&T is one of the telecommunications providers that cooperates with the NSA. Ha! Klein said AT&T was giving the NSA access to traffic AT&T transmitted through peering agreements with other telecom companies. The program was nearly twice as large and expensive as the agency’s second biggest program with AT&T’s rival Verizon, which was codenamed Stormbrew in the files.

The NSA has been helped by AT&T for decades in spying on huge quantities of internet traffic new-disclosed documents reveal.

The article states that it’s unclear if AT&T has the same kind of relationship with the NSA today.

It is no secret that all U.S. telecommunication companies provided records to the NSA.

Previously, the NSA has been criticized by foreign governments for its attempts to eavesdrop on their politicians. Despite the leaked documents, AT&T says that it adheres to the law.

This NSA document spans programs and budgets between 2001 and 2013.

Verizon has its own partnership with the NSA in the form of a program called Stormbrew. The New York NY Times reported the Fairview program was forwarding greater than 1 million emails per day to the agency’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.

A Fairview fiber optic cable damaged during the 2011 Japan quake, for example, was repaired on the same date as an AT&T cable. The difference is that AT&T has been disproportionately involved in the NSA’s intelligence gathering. The other company did not start until February 2002, the draft report said. The company helped transform the United Nations headquarters into an NSA listening post, with all UN internet communications passing into the hands of surveillance agents.

According to newly uncovered documents reported on by the New York Times, AT&T and Verizon were not only supplying over a billion domestic cell phone records each and every day in 2011, but the U.S. government was paying them both for access to those logs.

This appears to contradict statements by intelligence officials to reporters, following earlier revelations by Snowden, that for technical reasons it was mostly Americans’ landline phone records that were being collected.

“Corporate sites are often controlled by the partner, who filters the communications before sending to N.S.A.”, according to the presentation.