DNI denies NSA analysts can tap calls without a warrant

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6. I really believe

"This is all double-talk. The dragnet warrants authorize collection of everyone's data."

...there is confusion. The data collected does not include content. That has been established.

Two of the four collection programs, one each for telephony and the Internet, process trillions of “metadata” records for storage and analysis in systems called MAINWAY and MARINA, respectively. Metadata includes highly revealing information about the times, places, devices and participants in electronic communication, but not its contents. The bulk collection of telephone call records from Verizon Business Services, disclosed this month by the British newspaper the Guardian, is one source of raw intelligence for MAINWAY.

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