Wiretapping DIDN'T HAPPEN. Why do they keep saying this. What's a wiretap? It's putting a bug on your phone line which didn't happen. What NSA and W did DOESN'T NEED WARRANTS.
It's shorthand. Go with the flow on this. Regardless of the technology, people operate under the illusion that the have privacy, and the Courts put some teeth into this illusion by excluding certain types of evidence from criminal prosecution.