I'm getting really sick of the whole "Comrade Eddie" BS from some

[randome]

343. The first link is a ruling by the FISC. One of the very courts some here don't see as legitimate.

But it's a ruling about minimization procedures.

2nd link is about the metadata.

3rd link refers to people outside the country and it was endorsed by the very FISC in your first link. So you approve of FISC in one case but not the other.

The minimization procedures are not always clear-cut. They can't be in today's information age. You get the authority to copy some terrorist suspect's email and you're bound to get some email in that mailbox belonging to an American citizen. You can't 'unsee' emails belonging only to citizens. In fact, if you were going to do that, you would need to examine every email, read it and then determine if it belonged to an American or not. Which makes no sense.

It's not feasible. Communications technology has changed and the NSA's procedures need to change, as well.
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