The PRISM documents (not the same as the PRISM program) proved that the NSA had access to Google's servers. Google claimed that they didn't give the NSA access

The PRISM documents (not the same as the PRISM program) proved that the NSA had access to Google's servers. Google claimed that they didn't give the NSA access, and at the time many people assumed they were lying. But a later Snowden leak showed that the NSA was tapping Google's fiber in a way consistent with the extra information we knew they were getting for PRISM, so Google appears not to have lied about that after all. The codename for the tap is apparently MUSCULAR[1]. Google is still totally turning over tons of data to the NSA under PRISM[2], but that goes through Google's lawyers and the court system so bad as it is, direct server access is much worse. [1]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/new-docs-show-nsa-taps-google-yahoo-data-center-links/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/new-docs-show-nsa... [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM