NSA monitors global Internet traffic via private fiber-optic cables (VIDEO)

The late Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska was right...at least, partially.

The Internet is a series of "tubes" connecting the world's major continents to each other.

So given what we know about the NSA's global surveillance operations from Edward Snowden's leaks, we can gather some information about how the NSA actually goes about hacking into these tubes carrying global communications.

RT Political Commentator Sam Sacks breaks it down.