The issue focused on the federal government's $9 billion contract with Microsoft to build and operate an intelligence surveillance system called the National Security Agency's Community Security Management Center (CSM Center). The government paid the vendor to provide the system for internal monitoring of internal political and agency employees, the contractors acknowledged in a court filing filed Tuesday in the case of Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda, lawyers for the journalists who were arrested last week by immigration authorities while reporting on documents they believed could be of vital national security importance. That court