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122. If you're not confused, then you are just wrong.

The Verizon issue and PRISM are two separate things.

The Verizon program collects phone numbers and other meta-data on US citizens.
PRISM collects more information on non-U.S. targets.

The following sentence makes no sense here. Maybe there is a context in which it does make sense:
"Section 215 according to Sensenbrenner, he should know what he meant, he wrote it, violates what it should do."



More information about PRISM:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/eichenwald/2013/06/prism-isnt-data-mining-NSA-scandal


First, the much-ballyhooed PRISM program is not a program and not a secret, and anyone who says it is should not be trusted because they don’t know what they’re talking about. PRISM is the name for the government computer system that is used to handle the foreign-intelligence data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Those rules are very specific. The targeting can only be of foreign nationals outside the United States. These are the restrictions:
[The N.S.A.] (1) may not intentionally target any person known at the time of acquisition to be located in the United States; (2) may not intentionally target a person reasonably believed to be located outside the United States if the purpose of such acquisition is to target a particular, known person reasonably believed to be in the United States;
 (3) may not intentionally target a United States person reasonably believed to be located outside the United States; (4) may not intentionally acquire any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition to be located in the United States; and
 (5) shall be conducted in a manner consistent with the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.