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0 foreign communications that often pass through u.s. servers. craig miller, national security correspondent for the washington post joins us now. thanks for being here. sure. the latest headline is direct access. do does the government have that to these internet companies? they say no, right? the companies have said no and i think that this is coming down to some hair splitting you of how we describe this access here. nobody is disputing that the government is getting the data that they need from these companies but the companies are disputing how direct that access is. and there s some language surfacing today that suggests that it s copies of this data that are being furnished to the government. so, it s you know, not exactly clear but the slides that the washington post obtained did indicate that this was direct access to the servers of all these firms. effectively t could be a box next to a box is what you re saying? exactly. the line out of these reports, any