Google and Yahoo's internal data-center fiber secretly tapped by NSA and GCHQ

Now I have heard and read reports that the NSA has intercepted transmissions within the Google cloud. Transmissions across leased fiber between physical locations. But this sketch shows something else, as if they had compromised Google’s application front end servers, or even that they wanted to someday in the future; it is impossible to tell without the context.
I have no doubt the MUSCULAR was used to read internal Goog and Yhoo transmissions, but that is not what the picture shows.

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