1. He provided his phone number for the NSA to search, a piece of information that they do retain and almost certainly have collected.

2. Not bloggers, just American families: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-k...

3. All information gleaned from the NSA is real information, and you don't send it to the public relations department. Instead it is an actual department set up to handle these requests from the public who wishes to know what their government is doing.