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damnedifIknow

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Sat Jun 22, 2013, 06:27 PM Jun 2013

Edward Snowden: Google, Facebook disclosures deceiving

"National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden slapped back Monday at companies like Google and Facebook, saying in an online chat that they were “misleading” in their denials of knowledge of participation in the PRISM program."

* "Snowden alleges the NSA has a direct line to capture, store and search virtually all online communications and activities of Americans as well as foreigners who interact via the Internet with Americans. NSA computers, he said, gather it through a classified arrangement with top technology companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft."

* “Their denials went through several revisions as it become more and more clear they were misleading and included identical, specific language across companies,”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/edward-snowden-google-facebook-92937.html

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