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show. And a note for those of you listening who work at the NSA, I just want to

say that I personally think you're doing a bang-up job and that you're looking

great, I must say. You look like you've lost some weight and I love what you've

done with your hair. So just spend any time reading or sending any email today?

Did you google anything? Did you check your account on Gmail or maybe Yahoo! You

were not alone. We begin tonight with breaking news. The Washington Post and the

Guardian newspaper tonight reporting on the existing of a previously

unreported top secret government spying program. The National Security

Administration and the FBI reportedly tapping directly into the servers of the

biggest internet companies in the world. Essentially putting government taps

deep inside the machinery that hosts hundreds of millions of American email

accounts and online storage and social media and communications. If this

sounds familiar, you're mistaken. This is new. This new secret spying program is

entirely different, for example, from the phone record spying program that was

revealed last night by the Guardian. A program that has the government's

storing records of past phone calls, allowing intelligence to go back to that

data and mine through it at a later date. We're going to have more on the latest

details about that program, the phone program, and just a little bit. But on the

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