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[On the Road]

173. Although I Tend to Agree With You,

the impeachment contingent has sort of a point. If a Democratic president was indeed obliterating the constitution and listening to everyone's phone calls, I might agree with them.

Instead, it appears that what happened is that with court approval the NSA assembled an internal database to be queried only by FISA warrant. Whether the safeguards were followed does not seem to be clear from the discussion here.

Assembling the database prior to government query seems to have been a part of this. Part of this appears to boil down to whether the standard was a personal search or producing business records. Or alternately a personal search based on a warrant using business records using stored information based on a warrantless request.

Or something like that. The Obama administration might have abused current law, but it's difficult to tell based on the OMG!!!! posts here. I really, actually can't tell whether to be concerned becaus of the absence of grown-up discussion.