Verizon reportedly set up a fiber-optic line linked directly to the US government. The Cashing In panel weighed in on this controversial discovery today. (VIDEO-AT-LINK) Business Insider reported on the fiber-optic line: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times — who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for this story on the NSA gaining the cooperation of U.S. telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to customer data — mentioned a detail from 2007 (emphasis ours): In Virginia, a telecommunications consultant reported, Verizon had set up a dedicated fiber-optic line running from New Jersey to Quantico, Va., home...