NSA 'secret backdoor' paved way to U.S. phone, e-mail snooping (details of misleading govt stmts)

[DirtyDawg]

2. When is...

...somebody, besides me, going to point out that for those of us that have watched a couple of decades of Law&Order reruns, good old Lennie Briscoe and/or Jack McCoy have been 'checking the LUDs' on every bad guy and gal targeted in both the 'law' portion and the 'order' portion since forever...LED stands for 'local usage details' which, as I understand it is exactly what the NSA is compiling. Obviously, there's a ton of it which requires a massive storage capability, but what's the big deal? I'm as Liberal as they come, but I don't have nearly as much of a problem as the media seems to have.