The only way these abuses are going to stop is if the government employees and contractors who ordered and/or architected these systems are prosecuted and convi

The only way these abuses are going to stop is if the government employees and contractors who ordered and/or architected these systems are prosecuted and convicted. Wink + nod and nothing will happen even if they did something illegal. But, all these shenanigans were OK's by Obama's DOJ and handpicked rubber-stamp judges. So technically NSA et al did nothing illegal, judges approved all of it.