FISA doesn't preclude "real-time" data - that's one of the points of the surveillance. The original intention of the law was to listen to phone calls as they ha

FISA doesn't preclude "real-time" data - that's one of the points of the surveillance. The original intention of the law was to listen to phone calls as they happened. What's unclear between the original descriptions of what the slides called Prism and these descriptions is just how automatic the system is - if the steps of lawyers individually reviewing each request still exist.