.... "The NSA has trillions of telephone calls and emails in their databases
that they've collected over the last several years," Greenwald told ABC
News' George Stephanopoulos. "And what these programs are, are very
simple screens, like the ones that supermarket clerks or shipping and
receiving clerks use, where all an analyst has to do is enter an email
address or an IP address, and it does two things. It searches that
database and lets them listen to the calls or read the emails of
everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or
Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any
further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP
address do in the future." ....