Curious how collection in the first place doesn't seem to be at issue, but merely access. I recall the days when it was more like a shell game between the words

Curious how collection in the first place doesn't seem to be at issue, but merely access. I recall the days when it was more like a shell game between the words collect and access, where for a while denial of the former just meant red tape around the latter. That was probably before signals intelligence powers were widely expanded to a myriad of federal law enforcement agencies, though. It's also funny to me that the aftermath of January 6th seems to be a large driver of this so-called reform recently. Bringing the full power of the US signals intelligence apparatus to bear upon people who decided to storm the US capitol doesn't seem particularly unreasonable nor unfair to me.