The whole approach is “concerning.” The agency is still collecting everyone’s communications and then it’s supposed to be enforcing rules about queries run afte

The whole approach is “concerning.” The agency is still collecting everyone’s communications and then it’s supposed to be enforcing rules about queries run after the collection. The statute[1] requires that only foreign persons are “targeted”. Until this basic problem (untargeted initial collection) is fixed the whole program is still illegal. I get that the idea of being able to search communications for a person of interest after the fact is a powerful investigative tool, but the 4th Amendment and the FISA statute are supposed to limit the communications that the government can intercept in the first place, not just to limit what they do with their bulk collection. [1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1881a https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1881a