> The NSA apparently believed that it had the authority to search the telephone records database in order to obtain the 'reasonable articulable suspicion' requi

> The NSA apparently believed that it had the authority to search the telephone records database in order to obtain the 'reasonable articulable suspicion' required to investigate those numbers. Essentially, they were conducting suspicionless searches to obtain the suspicion the FISA court required to conduct searches. Yup. Exactly what we feared. They've been abusing the mass surveillance all along, to skirt the legal system in Court, and get people convicted with the illegal surveillance data. If all of that is not unconstitutional (not to mention against human rights), I don't know what is.