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May 17, 2006 2 a.m. - just hours before the EFF and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein's first hearing on their lawsuit vs AT&T for helping the NSA run a massive internet spying operation
Klein's evidence was under seal. Only a few had seen it. The NYT & LA Times were too scared to publish.
I had gotten a hold of them. Just a freelancer. Wired under EIC Evan Hansen agreed to publish everything.
2 a.m., we published.
Room 641a was public.
AT&T's lawyers death stares were glorious.
RIP Mark Klein
@ryansingel that was such a day. Sitting by you in the court...
...I'm sorry to hear it. He always seemed like a mench.
@quinn He was, and I'm blessed to have you as a witness
@ryansingel He was such a staunch union guy 
@ryansingel wait, what i remember was the article going live while we were in the courtroom, and that I had no idea what was going on with the publishing, is that the wrong memory?
@quinn
That was back when the homepage went up at 2 a.m. And Klein's book says 2 a.m. so gonna run with that
@ryansingel something went up when we were in the courtroom. you were vibrating
@quinn My memory is *fuzzy* at best on that day
@ryansingel better than mine, man
@quinn yeah, looking at the book he quotes an AT&T lawyer complaining to the judge about docs published 8 hours ago. So guessing it was 2 a.m. and I was just still buzzing