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Government phone and internet surveillance programs. the guardian newspaper in the uk is releasing what it calls part two of an interview he did last month. in it, ed snowden predicted the feds would charge him with espionage and two weeks later they did. he also told journalist glen greenwald and film maker laura that executives at some of americas biggest tech companies lied when they denied that they gave the government direct access to their servers. >> companies like google, facebook, apple...

Calls through verizon. but in 2006 another whistleblower claimed at&t gave the nsa direct access to vast amounts of customer information with equipment built right into the system. that sparked several lawsuits charging invasion of privacy, most of those cases were thrown out after congress gave telecommunication companies retroactive immunity. mark klein is that whistleblower. he is the author of "wiring up the big brother machine and fighting it," and he joins us now. essentially, much of what...