in reply tosaid julian smith in a letter that was published that there are 850,000 people in the world who have the same information as you have in those piles -- those files. >> we were told that 850,000 to thewere exposed original leak, which is the thing that most people were concerned about -- 850,000 people had access to the information. >> these 800 50,000 people, this is a figure given to you of people who've got security clearance, or they would know what is in the -- >> obviously, people were aghast. people at gc hq were aghast that a 29-year-old in hawaii not even employed by the american government could get access to their finals. of 850old the figure thousand people who had that kind of access. it is part of the defense. there is a lot of controversy regarding the publication of this information, that you may have this information. eight hundred 50 thousand people, they are in the same position, if they choose to be, as mr. snowden was, to release this information. there is safety in numbers, in other words. that these giant databases that were created after 9/11 have prov