e-mail. and you know, your actual communications if you re skyping and discussing something with a family member. not like the phone record thing, which is just a record of who you called. right? i mean, both are controversial but one more so. all of these internet companies deny any involvement in or knowledge of the programs existence. so they say we were not knowingly cooperating with the government on this. meantime, there are new questions today about what should happen to the man at the center of the leaks. 29-year-old edward snowden came out this weekend as the administration was saying, we re going after the leaker, and said, it was me. i did it because i was working in the public interest. i think that public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside of the democratic model. when you are subverting the power of government, that is a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. and if you do that in secret consistn