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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 you told the country in your lawsuit seven years ago is what edward snowden just revealed about the...

Government, that puts a whole frightening aspect to it. information includes financial data -- jon: mark klein, we have to say good-bye because the computer's about to -- >> okay. jon: mark, thank you very much.

And these two revolutionary guards compatriots. jenna: mark, great to see you as always. thanks for the time today. >> thanks, jenna. jenna: and we'll be right back with more "happening now."

Quds force. speaking of the election, here's what's interesting. four of the candidates running for president of iran are former high ranking officers of the revolutionary guard. mark dubielewicz is executive director of the foundation for the defense of democracies, and, mark, people might think al-qaeda right away. tell us more about the revolutionary guard. who are they? what do we have to fear here? >> hi, jenna. well, the revolutionary guards are a terrorist organization declared as such by the u.s. government in 2007. they're the most deadly in the world that most people have never heard...

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...