My goal was not to participate in this discussion at this particular time, but instead to read others' valuable opinions. My reason for posting was to correct

My goal was not to participate in this discussion at this particular time, but instead to read others' valuable opinions. My reason for posting was to correct factual errors in the discussion. Factual errors seriously reduce the level of quality of discussions of topics such as this one. Things get much more interesting when people hone in on the nuanced elements of the actual fact pattern. My replies were to correct people who seemed to think that my curation of quotes from the FISA order implied something about my views on whether the order is good or bad. And now this is an attempt to make the whole series of responses clear.