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56. If you are confused (which I doubt) it's because there's more than one thing going on.

The program that was first described and was connected to Verizon only involved meta-data -- phone numbers, time and place of call. This program compiles data involving phone calls in the United States. In order to investigate further, probable cause needs to be shown to a judge and a warrant obtained.

The PRISM program targets terrorism activities outside the United States and no one is claiming that that program compiles only meta-data or that warrants need to be obtained.

Snowden himself claims he has thousands of classified documents in his possession and claims to have downloaded them onto a thumb drive -- though earlier the newspapers reported that he'd loaded them onto four computers in his possession. Where did he get the documents? From computers where he worked. Since we don't know what's in them, we don't know how damaging they could be. And neither does he, since he can't have read them all in his short time at Booz Allen.