After the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit against AT&T alleging that AT&T collaborated with the U.S. government in illegal electronic surveillance, the Bush administration attacked back on several fronts, saying that customers cannot prove that their phones were tapped or that AT&T or the government broke the law. The government also states that the whole case represents a danger to national security. In a federal court in California, sealed documents and a deeply edited public version of a move for dismissal included declarations from John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, and Lt. General Keith Alexander, who is director of the National Security Agency. The foundation's suite accuses AT&T of illegally providing NSA with access to AT&T's voice and data network and its customer bases to help with the NSA surveillance program. Documents for the suit included those obtained by a former AT&T technician. The documents describe equipment in AT&T's San Francisco, California office. It is alleged that the equipment would enable the federal agency to sweep up huge amounts of data that it could screen for targeted information. AT&T will ask a federal judge to declare the sealed documents as trade secrets and order them to be returned. USA today has also reported that the NSA paid AT&T, Verizon, and Bell South for the phone records of many millions of Americans so that the government could find calling patterns that might show communications with terrorists. Kevin Bankston, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has said that the group seeks to protect national security by protecting millions of Americans from a government that is colluding with telecommunications companies in spying on their phone and Internet communications. Ann Beeson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, expects a like government dismissal motion in the ACLU suit filed on behalf of private citizens who say they have reason to think their calls and messages have been or will be monitored. The suit, filed in a Michigan federal court, seeks to stop the federal surveillance program.