Are you referring to Prism or the "beam splitting"? Prism sends over data that was already generated; it's not the government's fault that the company bothered

Are you referring to Prism or the "beam splitting"? Prism sends over data that was already generated; it's not the government's fault that the company bothered to generate it but if they get a warrant why should they pretend like it didn't exist? I'm not sure how you would even begin to investigate things like 9/11 if you weren't allowed to collect evidence from actions that occurred before the crime came to the attention of the government. If you're talking about beam-splitting then, well, I see your argument. But that's not what I was talking about in my parent comment.