craig whitlock, let me start with you and ask you about what we just heard the president commenting on. there have been several sets of disclosures. one set did have to do with the u.s. reading the e-mails of the leaders of these countries that are supposed to be allies. tell us a little bit about what those disclosures were. >> well, i think as the president described in a backdoor manner, the national security agency and other u.s. spy agencies conduct surveillance on a pretty astounding scale worldwide, and some of these embarrassing parts of it are starting to come to light, including communications, e-mails, phone calls involving the leadership of countries that are our partners and allies. and i think these countries maybe suspected this sort of thing was going on, but with a wink and a nod, they wouldn't inquire about it. now it's coming to light, and it's embarrassing. >> woodruff: when the president says it's not happening, how do you square that? >> well, he didn't say it's not happening. he said sometimes we gather up in our surveillance things that maybe we weren't targetin