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Social media communications of everyday americans is not true. at the white house, more pushback. >> we are not interested in the communications of people who are not valid foreign intelligence targets. >> reporter: the report is based on documents said to be leaked by edward snowden. in one document, which could not be verified by cnn, the effort is described as a golden nugget. information that could be collected includes location of users, networks to which they connect, websites visited, buddy lists and downloaded documents. >> this would need really tight controls to make sure they weren'...

Activity. but that doesn't give the government the right to get a warrant or the judge the right to issue a warrant to spy on everybody in the state of new jersey in order to capture you and me. >> but they don't call it spying. they recorded all our phone calls. they've got all our text messages. they can tune our phone on in our pocket and listen in if they wanted to. >> the "washington post" reported friday afternoon, shortly after the president's speech that the nsa is capturing 500,000 buddy lists a day. you and i are of a generation we probably don't use buddy lists, but a lot of people ...

Information? >> you can see the address book information, i think, helps us understand how they make use of these other databases that emerged as controversy over the past six months. having someone's addresses can map out details of their connections to others. earlier we learned that the nsa collects metadata, records of calling information people make in the united states. if you marry that with the collection of e-mail address books, you can start to draw connections just beyond those phone numbers that ping around that also include e-mail addresses, instant messaging addresses, buddy list...

Custody has been transferred to a lawyer. he has been read his miranda rights. his transfer coming much sooner than expected. senior law enforcement officials telling abc news the transfer was sped up in part due to a serious health condition. a u.s. official confirming reports that al-liby has a severe case of hepatitis c, which is a viral infection that attacks the liver. over the years, al-liby apparently mistakenly assumed the u.s. had stopped looking for him. now finally he is facing justice. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. a new report shows nsa has been combing through buddy lis...

It is not just your e-mails. the n.s.a. reportedly collecting information from your buddies. according to "the washington post," the agency collects half a million buddy lists from chat services and e-mail accounts. the n.s.a. insists it is not interested in the average american, telling reporters -- quote -- "the n.s.a. is focused onñi foreign intelligence targets like terrorists. we're notñr interested in personal information about ordinary americans." we'll watch that one as well. another dry ice explosion at los angeles international airport. this time police finding two bottles contai...