Yet Another NSA Program Raises Questions About Obama's Statements to Charlie Rose

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72. I think the whole mechanism is automated.

From the Guardian Q&A:

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2) Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant?

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... Even in the event of "warranted" intercept, it's important to understand the intelligence community doesn't always deal with what you would consider a "real" warrant like a Police department would have to, the "warrant" is more of a templated form they fill out and send to a reliable judge with a rubber stamp.

It makes sense, with thousands of these events happening all the time, that the system tabulates the information from the templated form they fill out into a separate database, and then this database is captured or "collected" under the next application for a warrant.

With thousands of these warrants being sought, they must repeat this process several times a day, or every three days at many different locations.

It is interesting to see how they weasel word everything they say about this program.

For a good example, they claim there has never been a "misuse" of this "robosigning" system. Of course not, compliance is completely computerized and automatic, no matter how the system is being abused. They have designed the system such that it is impossible to "misuse" it since each and every use is perfectly legal all around.

It really is exactly like the robosigning. The purpose of affidavits in the bankster cases was to help protect the rights of the borrower. It's exactly the same thing here.