Surprise, Surprise
The NSA ARE the hackers!
They did a great job in catching those Chinese hackers. Oh, wait a minute...
Laughable.
“The data-handling procedures, approved by the U.S. attorney general, ...”
There’s the problem right there.
The spying and collecting of data and other private information on US citizens is completely illegal and unconstitutional but most importantly it's almost certainly also against STATE law on many levels. So here's the good news.
The good news is we know exactly where all this data is collected and where it's stored. So when the American people finally get sick and tired of this crap we can simply get a local sheriff, a warrant, and if need be several thousand deputized patriotic Americans to seize as states evidence every last computer and cable at these data centers. Then the computers and the illegally obtained data they contain in violation of state law can be used for prosecutions. The computers would remain as states evidence and finally destroyed.
The End: