essentially ordered them to release information about their users. the on-line giants filed separate but similar motions yesterday following in the foot steps of google and microsoft. all four of the companies were on the list of internet businesses identified as giving the nsa access to customer data under a program known as briss sim. they argue they have a free speech right to publish aggregate data on the national security orders. among other things facebook and microsoft or -- yahoo i should say how many orders they wanted to receive. facebook is arguing with more than 1 billion exposing that data would lead a user to infer he or she has been targeted. yahoo adds director of national intelligence says he's going to start disclosing how many letters and orders the agency issues from now on. if they can release that kind of