Warrantless wiretapping was going on starting in 2002. > you'll sound like a conspiracy nut Yea I agree, for periods before 2002 it's a lot harder to explain

Warrantless wiretapping was going on starting in 2002. > you'll sound like a conspiracy nut Yea I agree, for periods before 2002 it's a lot harder to explain "this assumption seems entirely consistent with the way they've always acted over decades of history" than it is to say "of course they'd do this, here's proof of the last time they did it".