I'm not sure: did they lie? I'm not sure how the revealed procedures fit in, or fail to fit in, with the exceptions permitted under FISA http://www.gpo.gov/fdsy

I'm not sure: did they lie? I'm not sure how the revealed procedures fit in, or fail to fit in, with the exceptions permitted under FISA http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg1783.pdf http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg178... and the FISA Amendments Act http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text , which of course were public knowledge already. (IANAL, and FISA + FAA is an ugly tangle of legal spaghetti.) One thing that certainly is countenanced in FISA is sharing information about criminal activity with US law enforcement (though it's far from obvious to me that the procedures for this laid out in the documents fully comply with FISA 101). And I mean, imagine if it were otherwise? If in the course of accidentally overhearing some US domestic communications the NSA comes across information about, say, a huge massacre planned on US soil, wouldn't it be pretty perverse and unreasonable if the law prohibited them from letting US law enforcement know anything about it?