[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

What about the NSA saying that they have the necessary tools to do their job under the USA Freedom Act and that it is an actual improvement?

I don't know the context of that alleged statement, but the USA Freedom Act is the Patriot Act without bulk data collection. It's difficult to comprehend how not having speedy and emergency access to phone records would be an improvement to operations.

[conservativejoy]

The technology is now in place to allows the NSA to access the necessary information in real time.