I think there were laws broken, though. It is my understanding that the NSA was restricted to spying on foreign targets, and not supposed to be collecting data

I think there were laws broken, though. It is my understanding that the NSA was restricted to spying on foreign targets, and not supposed to be collecting data of any sort on Americans domestic phone calls. Of course, the laws a purposefully kept complex and plenty of loopholes are snuck in, so I may be missing somthing.