They mostly just store raw data on a big hard drive. They don’t bother to listen to each phone call. How they decide which bits of raw data require further scrutiny and use it to stop terror attacks is beyond me. How they allegedly keep themselves from abusing the system to target political foes both large and small is not believable imho. Would the libtards have let Dubya get away with something this massive?
Of course not—and I don’t think Republicans would have let President Bush pass this, either. (I also don’t think it would have ever entered their minds to do so.)
I think they keep every phone call, e-mail and voice message and have them stored in Utah to mine after an incident. After they caught the Boston bombers I remember a news show playing a VM of the girl friend that was made before the bombers were caught. How did they get this? If she was under surveillance they would have busted the brothers. Seemed strange then but know makes perfect sense. They dipped into the vault and pulled it out.
This suit was brought by libtards in the ACLU. The opinion says that the collections being challenged have been ongoing since May 2006 (page 12). "The government acknowledged that it has collected metadata for substantially every call in the United States since May 2006."
Wanna bet? A meth ring was busted here in Macon, GA. last spring. All the underlings got a year or two suspended along with big fines but the kingpin got off scot-free thanks to his shyster lawyer using their NSA crap against the DA. All his charges were dropped and he walked.
The reason I know this is one of the underlings is family-much as I hate to admit the worthless scumbag is related to me!