Marc Ambinder, a well-respected national security journalist who literally wrote the book on this topic, speculated (or perhaps stated what his sources have tol

Marc Ambinder, a well-respected national security journalist who literally wrote the book on this topic, speculated (or perhaps stated what his sources have told him) how this could work on Twitter earlier tonight. Buzzfeed recapped it here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/direct-access-is-the-defining-phrase-of-the-nsa-scandal http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/direct-access-is-the-defin... > On the “no direct access” —ISPs push to a separate server the subset of accounts that the FISC order covers; NSA monitors them in real time > Let’s say court order says “all Yahoo accounts in Pakistan” Yahoo would push those accounts to the server; NSA could watch them in real time >They’d try & figure who & where the incoming emails were coming from. US persons data minimized automatically if possible (often it’s not).