Everything You Need to Know About NSA Snooping Scandal

Edward Snowden revealed as leaker, and more on the scandal.

Bush Did it First - In 2006, USA Today reported that NSA was "secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth." But, back then it was done illegally, which President George W. Bush defended, saying it saved American lives.  (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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It Doesn't End There - According to a report from The Washington Post, NSA and the FBI are tapping into the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple. The agencies are "extracting" from overseas accounts "audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time." Code name: Prism.  (Photo: Patrick Lux/Getty Images)
"Reprehensible" - James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, has denounced disclosure of the Internet surveillance program as "reprehensible" and said it could irreversibly harm the nation's ability to respond to threats.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)/content/dam/betcom/images/2011/11/National-11-01-11-15/111611-national-white-house-bullet.jpg

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Are Verizon Customers the Only Ones Affected? - Under the order to collect phone data, Verizon is prohibited from even acknowledging it is collecting the data. So it is not publicly known whether other carriers are involved. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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