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That doesn’t mean they willingly joined PRISM, knew that they had joined, or knew what data the NSA was taking.

As has been discussed elsewhere there are legitimate and legal reasons for them to cooperate with the NSA in certain ways.

Those two words change nothing more than that there was a partnership of some kind.

No evidence has ever been produced of these companies knowingly participating in the kind of bulk data collection that PRISM is asserted to be.

I’m not claiming to be certain they didn’t participate.

I am claiming that the evidence clearly doesn’t not support that claim yet.