we are talking to reporter scott shane.is front-page article i'm a "no morsel too minuscule for all- consuming nsa." can you talk about some of the programs that you outline from polar breeze to dish fire to the nsa's social network analysis collaboration knowledge services? >> one of the things they find out going through these documents is at first they are kind of baffling because nsa, ,ike most intelligence agencies talks about everything in terms of code words. so every program has a code name and usually the coding reveals nothing about the program. and so it takes a long time, sort of like learning another language, takes a long time to make any sense out of any of this. databaseturns out is a where text messages sent by cell phones around the world are collected and put into this database. from the bits and pieces you can take a from the documents, it appears to contain text messages in many languages going back for many years. there are documents that specifically say it is useful for going back in time. if you fin

there it sat, above a chilling account by "new york times" reporter scott shane of how spying by thenational security agency has spread like a contagious virus. and there's more, another "times" article reports that the cia has been paying at&t more than $10 million dollars a year for access to its telephone records. it gives new meaning to the phone company's old slogan, reach out and touch someone. true, it's a dangerous world out there and someone has to keep an eye on it. but if you think that the only targets of illicit snooping are suspected terrorists, foreign dignitaries, and journalists too close to the truth, guess again. every one of us is under the omniscient magnifying glass of government and corporate spies. yes, remember the corporations. their data banks cover every sector of american society, aimed, as the foreword to a new book notes, "at school-children and mothers of school children, at church congregations, credit card members, and facebook friends, at everybody and anybody at work or at play, with the tracking device otherwise known as a cell phone." how do we r