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Federal government picks up the information how? >> basically it's by working with the company's that run the fiber-optic networks like at&t and verizon and so on. they work with them by installing -- in the san francisco at&t facility, they take taps off a line. inserting something. it's called a splitter or a wide connector. it is like a prism where you put the fiber-optic line into one prism and it duplicates it. two ways. one way goes to the nsa facility where they use devices to reconstruct everything on that line. the rest of it goes down the proper channels for communication. that's how...

Tell comes and so on. >> phone calls through verizon. phone logs all being kept by the nsa. >> right. >> you say you actually left the nsa after emails stopped being encrypted. at this point what you are telling us is that any email can be viewed by anybody who has access is, right? i mean, without the inscription? it's all there? >> yes, there is two ways to do it. one is the mark klein documented this in the courts where they put devices in the san francisco at&t facility. they ran the fiberoptic lines inside the united states into the devices for nsa in this nsa room. now, what that does is...