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Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention was aware that the government was extending their reach into the ordinary citizen privacy drip by drip. However, yesterday's revelation by The Washington Post and The Guardian. What's unclear is what other data mining is being accomplished by whom and for what purpose. We can be sure that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg with these two leaks.

This story was covered by nearly all news sources and here is MSNBC's initial take.

Dominic Rushe, Business correspondent for the Guardian, talks with Rachel Maddow about twin reports by The Washington Post and The Guardian revealing the a U.S. government program to collect data from nine major internet companies.

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Rachel Maddow reports on the development of U.S. wiretapping programs since the Bush administration and the regular renewal and codifying of such practices by Congress, all to general indifference of Americans despite serious Constitutional questions.

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Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, talks with Rachel Maddow about the legalities of newly revealed government programs to collect phone and internet communication data, and how laws have changed since the practice began under the Bush administration.

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The NSA and FBI are tapping into top U.S. Internet firms for data, including video chats and photographs, the Washington Post's Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras report. Former senior advisor for the McCain–Palin campaign Nicolle Wallace, economic analyst Steve Rattner and the Woodrow Wilson International's Jane Harman and Gellman join Morning Joe to discuss.

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The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald tells MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell that access to U.S. Internet giants, like Google, Facebook and Apple, are now in the mix

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