"...The two programs violate both the letter and the spirit of federal law." "We may never know all the details of the mass surveillance programs, but we know

"...The two programs violate both the letter and the spirit of federal law." "We may never know all the details of the mass surveillance programs, but we know this: The administration has justified them through abuse of language, intentional evasion of statutory protections, secret, unreviewable investigative procedures and constitutional arguments that make a mockery of the government’s professed concern with protecting Americans’ privacy. It’s time to call the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal." Fatal bug throughout the whole `stack'? Are these lawyered authors actually telling us the rudder is gone and the entire hull rotten?