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In reply to the discussion: Conyers, Nadler, and Scott: NSA-Phone Tracking is Overbroad; Call for Immediate Hearings [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)telling me. They are defending what they have been doing claiming it's all okay to collect the data of Americans, NOT Foreigners, because they abided by the FISA law and got a warrant. That is not possible since the FISA Bill does NOT permit Domestic 'data collection' for present or future use, with or without content.
So if they are telling the truth and actually did get a warrant, either they lied to the FISA Court or the Court itself has violated the law under which they operate.
So to settle the matter of how they obtained the warrant they are claiming, let them release the probable cause argument they presented and swore to, to the FISA Court. Because 'no warrant shall be obtained without probable cause' etc etc.
I think maybe you have not been following this issue, you seem to not understand what has been claimed, what the FISA law, which even you must know is what they are using for cover, actually allows. Nor do you seem to understand that it is not being denied that they WERE collecting data on Americans, domestically. We are not talking about Foreign data collection.