With respect to the hair-splitting going on around here. > Every company involved denied the most sensational assertion in the Prism documents: that the NSA pu

With respect to the hair-splitting going on around here. > Every company involved denied the most sensational assertion in the Prism documents: that the NSA pulled data "directly from the servers" of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL and more. > Technology experts and a former government official say that phrasing, taken from a PowerPoint slide describing the program, was likely meant to differentiate Prism's neatly organized, company-provided data from the unstructured information snatched out of the Internet's major pipelines.