[muawiyah]

What were told that to the degree any information from the USA was involved they had to get court warrants and they did so. The foreign part they've never needed warrants for ~

I do not consider it any sort of problem to tap all the phones in the world ~ but by gum if they want to do it to my phone they need a warrant. Snowdon's revelations help only the foreigners who would kill me in my bed.

[Lazamataz]

but by gum if they want to do it to my phone they need a warrant.

They did it.

Without a warrant.

Still cool with the actions of our government?

[MichiganConservative]

You don’t seem to understand how these warrant things work.

One warrant could be for “All the Verizon call data from February to June 2012”.

That’s just one warrant, but how many millions of phones? how many billions of phone calls?

But hey, just one warrant so it doesn’t seem so huge.

Morality and ethics of this leak aside, it confirms for me that the biggest threat to my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness on earth ever is the US government.

[Jim Noble]

The problem that I see with PRISM (if I understand it right) is NOT that the government will prosecute you in an Article III court with the information gained, but it's that the Organs will possess enormous amounts of information about you that can be given to your enemies or can be used for Fourth Branch (EPA, OSHA, IRS, etc) harassment at will.

They won't NEED a warrant to ruin your life, and for a lot of people who are NOT guilty of any crimes, ruining their life will be punishment enough for opposing The One.