CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper December 17, 2013 21:02:00
President and vice president arrived after that and spent the next two hours discussing the nsa surveillance programs with which these companies have been forced to comply. recently, many of these companies signed an open letter calling for reforms to the nsa's wide-reaching surveillance programs and transparency. those programs have treated america's tech giants like a grab bag from which to mine user data, e-mail, chat, video, photos, you name it. much of the time the nsa isn't asking for the data. it's telling. here are just a few specifics. from facebook, the nsa mines profiles or connecti...