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[Music] at the national security agency they called it the program we are under emergency conditions created after extraordinary means are required to deal with a threat collecting data on american citizens you're looking for unknown conspirators and the way they devised to do that was to look at everybody secrets at the highest levels of government a whole surveillance program without warrants designed for domestic surveillance what we're doing is lawful and i think is effective through two presidencies highly classified program he was collecting the entire internet stream he chose to keep the programs largely intact that's not just data collection that's digital surveillance i argued it was unethical illegal and unconstitutional and when this comes out all hell is going to break loose tonight on frontline united states of secrets part one the program [Music] the biggest leak of government secrets ever began in december of 2012 with a single email delivered to an ip address in rio de janeiro glenn greenwald one of the world's busiest journalists is sitting in his home in rio and he sees an email from someone he doesn't know it's not a friend it's not his mum and it just says i've got some stuff you might be interested in he didn't use his name and he said very cryptically and very vaguely that he had information that he wanted to discuss with me but could only do so if i were to install encryption guardian newspaper columnist and blogger glenn greenwald didn't pay much attention to the email 99 of the time it ends up that they're crazy or delusional or the the story is just not very good and this guy or girl we don't know who it is um is persistent so a few days later emails again and says look glenn can you do this thing and glenn still doesn't do it this attempt basically to leak all of these secrets initially just go straight into the sand [Music] the source moved on this time to berlin he was soon exchanging emails with american documentary filmmaker laura poitras she'd been in contact for over a month with a mysterious source who had reached out to her using her encryption key and using anonymous channels and said he had a big story for her a few weeks later in new york poitras met national security investigative reporter barton gellman at a greenwich village restaurant this was something she wanted to be exceptionally careful about we agreed on a cafe to meet at we also i think both understood that when we got there we'd moved to someplace else poitras asked gilman to vet the source and meet him electronically her source who became also my source i needed to take very special precautions in the usual nsa style and so he called me brass banner and he called himself vrx which means truth teller in latin through sophisticated encrypted messages verax promised an unprecedented scoop but it came...