It means what it says: that they can take things directly from the servers of those companies. What else could it mean?

Glenn Greenwald 10:39AM 9 Jun 2013

Oh Glenn, what else could it mean? It’s not what you said it was - a literal interpretation that you kept repeating as though the NSA would directly go on to company servers and grab the data they needed.

That wasn’t what was being done, but he kept insinuating that was the case for days. Now? He’s saying he never claimed direct access? There’s dozens of tweets and multiple Guardian reports insisting that the blockbuster story was about the NSA direct access to the servers.

Without the direct access angle, one of the important angles to this story falls apart.