According to Dick Cheney on Hannity earlier, the contract Snowden had with NSA overrides the hundreds of millions of telephone and internet service contracts expectation of privacy.
Nice, right ?
Cheney is wrong, not even incorrect, wrong.
If I understood “Snowjob” he said he could gather nearly any piece of information on an American Citizen within minutes.
Not possible. Not probable.
As far as I can see all Snowjob did was give a name to what most of us or least long time professionals in the communications arena already know and knew.
For instance, ISP’s are required to archive seven years of records. If one of the Alphabet agencies is provided Whole Pipe access to look through the records for a single suspect and the information described in the warrant, the agencies just scoops huge swaths of information that has nothing to do with the target.
They then, violating court order, do not minimize the information. That is, dump and destroy any and all information that is not specific to the warrant.
They have no reason and at this point, no sanction to compel them.