this one makes spycraft sound more like a game than real life when, in fact, it is a game featuring these guys. goblins, elves, dwarfs, trolls. could they be the new faces of terror or nsa spies under cover? the new leak indicates they may be both. stay with me here. according to documents obtained by snowden and share would the "new york times" among others, nsa spies infiltrated this online fantasy game known as world of warcraft. roamed these virtual worlds looking for possible terrorist cells they believe were used, they believe were using the game for cover. and get this, the report says that so many government agencies were spying in these fictional worlds that an additional government group was needed to avoid the virtual spies from spying on each other. the documents do not site any plots being foiled or any elves ending up being in a terrorist cell. however, i know as perposturous as all of this sounds, today in "the situation room" brian todd talked to one of these online spies this former fbi agent and he says he actually found terrorists lurking in these games. >> at one point

twice and pursuing the militants i wouldn't doubt that story either triet >> host: can we talk about spycraft because as journalists you're always taking strange precautions you would be followed when you were going down the street, you would have people coming and asking your driver who is this person if you went to the afghan or the indian embassies and you would write about the coke and suspicions eavesdropping and about walking in the garden to try to avoid bugs inside the house. can you talk about love the game that you yourself were playing to make it to those that wouldn't appear in the press about what you're doing or even thinking. >> guest: one of the surprises was that when we first arrived in pakistan at the safe house and they spoke no english and had a detailed agenda of everything that we were doing and i was astonished and had a tremendous security breach to have the agenda and i was getting a response and they said he has to know because he has to know when i'm going to be taking meals in the house. meals are very important. so that was one story. and obviously when we wanted