I'm still leaning toward the idea that if this is happening at all, it's happening at the ISP/Backbone level. Which would mean none of these companies are lying- but still that the Government is way overstepping, by leaps and bounds.

There's also the distinct possibility this is all bullshit. There have been a lot of holes and misinformation on Snowden's side("They can watch your thoughts form as you type", when none of the services except for GMail send textual data at real-time, etc), and the Q&A either doubled down some of them or was trying to be misleading.

I'm still waiting for the Guardian to stop milking this and just give us the rest of the slides, the rest of their evidence. At this point, my confidence in the story is shaken enough that I want more if I'm gonna go Pitchfork in hand at the NSA with all of this.