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Interestingly, the CNET article said exactly that. "If they're targeting anyone within mainland USA, then that triggers the system to require a warrant." But ev
by sillysaurus 13y ago
Interestingly, the CNET article said exactly that. "If they're targeting anyone within mainland USA, then that triggers the system to require a warrant." But everybody ignored or didn't read that part of the article.
- DennisP 13y agoIf they capture everyone's calls, they're not targeting anyone until someone listens to one.
- brown9-2 13y agoThe key word in that sentence being "targeting". A lot of the discussion is on what happens when the NSA targets a non-American overseas and that person calls or communicates with someone in the US. If you can listen to a large amount of an overseas target's communications, it's inevitable that some of what you pick up will be communications with Americans. The questions, and confusion, is what happens and what should happen when that occurs. The problem is that so much of the reporting around this gets things confused that it is hard to understand what everyone is talking about, and a lot of people are walking away with the assumption that analysts in the NSA are regularly listening to US-to-US phone calls or emails for shits and giggles.