Think of the NSA data collection as a large rainwater sistern that the gvt can only drink from with a specific warrant authorized by a court
@Hesiod2k11 No. You're badly mistaken. It is authorized by an ORDER, not a warrant. The use only requires RAS, monitored after the fact.
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@emptywheel - We only have the Order by the FISA ct post application. Which is the same thing as a fucking warrant. IT'S A COURT ORDER! -
@Hesiod2k11 "A fucking warrant" is not "A COURT ORDER." There is no prior court oversight of particularity. Zero. -
@emptywheel -- It's still an Order from a Court authorized by an act of Congress to issue such Orders. Nothing illegal about it. -
@Hesiod2k11 Except that the guy who wrote the statute (hint: NOT in 2008) says this use of it wasn't envisioned by the statute. -
@emptywheel -- That's odd considering that's exactly what the Bush administration was requesting when the statute passed. -
@Hesiod2k11 Again, you're thinking of a completely different statute. Wrong year, wrong statute, wrong request. Batting 0 on facts.
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