If they had to request anything from Google or FB, they wouldn't need such huge storage capacities. My guess is that these large companies have been forced to f

If they had to request anything from Google or FB, they wouldn't need such huge storage capacities. My guess is that these large companies have been forced to forward data (e-mail, chat lines, posts...) to the NSA as it arrives. It's not "direct access", it facilitates all the searches the NSA could wish for on NSA's own servers and does not contradict any of Google's, FB's or the NSA's claims so far from what I can tell (they store the data, then "collect" it as needed).