This is a good point. People asking for specifics on how PRISM works are just doing useless CNN-style modern "journalism": i.e. a bunch of time wasting specula

This is a good point. People asking for specifics on how PRISM works are just doing useless CNN-style modern "journalism": i.e. a bunch of time wasting speculation. The fact is, there are a million ways they could provide "direct" access to the data. Every company that has data has to have a way to replicate that data (e.g. to offsite locations in case the main site goes down, etc.). Replicating to the government would just take one person who knows how to turn on that replication and point it somewhere.