Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against National Security Agency, President George W. Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and other members of his administration such as Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, and former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales.

Since 2006 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been representing AT&T customers in a class action lawsuit against the AT&T company for participating in the governments surveillance program. It is believed that this certain program was authorized by President George Bush and implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA).

The lawsuit claims that the NSA has installed equipment to conduct mass surveillance at AT&T telecom facilities in San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, California and Bridgeton, Missouri. "We allege a nationwide network of such NSA vacuum-cleaner surveillance facilities that would indiscriminately collect communications of all of the people who use AT&T's network," said Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at EFF.

However Bush administration officials have always defended the program claiming it was essential for fighting terrorism. The surveillance program had been operating since 2001.

The lawsuit demands a court order forcing the NSA to end the program and destroy any copies of U.S. residents' e-mail and phone calls that exist. The lawsuit also seeks unspecified monetary damages. It was filed on behalf of all AT&T customers. The program is based partially on information from Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician who says he saw the equipment installed by the NSA at a company communications hub in San Francisco.