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captioning sponsored by cbs ed by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. verizon offers its telephone customers what's called the "share everything" plan. well, the irony of that did not escape a lot of folks today when it was revealed that verizon has been sharing the phone records of millions with u.s. intelligence. sources tell us this evening that surveillance extended to the internet as well. it was all done by court order. federal agents are not listening to conversations, they're examining patterns of calls in an attempt to track down te...

intelligence. sources tell us this evening that surveillance eblgs tended to the internet as well. it was all done by court order. federal agents are not listening to conversations, they're examining patterns of calls in an attempt to track down terrorists. "the guardian" newspaper broke the story earlier today and major garrett at the white house begins our coverage. >> reporter: the national security agency operating under secret court orders to thwart suspected terror plots was authorized to track calls to and from phone numbers of millions of americans-- even those not tied to te...

names of the callers. the program was approved by the secret foreign intelligence surveillance corps located inside the federal courthouse in washington. counterterrorism experts told us this surveillance is on going and involves most major telephone companies, not just verizon. some lawmakers such as wisconsin republican james sensenbrenner who wrote many of the legal rules covering such data collection criticized the scope of this surveillance. >> it's a huge overreach and it's an abuse of the powers that have been given to the government. >> reporter: but a majority of republicans...