"Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It", by Mark Klein is a personal account of government surveillance activities at AT&T by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the author's battle to bring it to light in the face of what he believes was a reluctant media and a disinterested Congress. A technician for more than 22 years at telecom giant AT&T, Klein was working in the Internet room in San Francisco in 2003 when he discovered secret NSA surveillance activities which, due to the lack of warrants, were eventually denounced as violations of the law and the Constitution.

Klein believed he had uncovered documentary evidence of these violations. He fought for months to draw media attention to the story and later became a witness in a lawsuit brought against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "I was horrified by the massive trampling on democratic rights by the government, especially regarding the Fourth Amendment, and frustrated that I had been forced to be a silent part of it by actually wiring up part of the apparatus as part of my job as a technician," Klein says. "Now that Congress has given the telecom companies retroactive immunity, I decided to write my own book about the whole episode, so everyone would know what really happened."

Klein's discovery garnered national attention after a 2005 report in The New York Times uncovered the existence of the warrantless surveillance program. Engineering documents obtained by Klein, which came out in court and are featured in the book, reveal how equipment was installed on fiber optic cables that carried daily Internet communications-e-mail, Web browsing, phone conversations, pictures, business transactions and more-to the NSA for copying and further analysis.

Klein states that the setup amounted to a massive "dragnet" on Americans' personal information. "Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It" is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.