U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies in Broad Secret Program

By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.