I doubt it. There are FReepers like me that support law enforcement getting records they need for specific investigations through the courts. That is how it has worked for years. That is how FISA was supposed to work. But that’s not what they are doing. They issued one order to VZ and asked for all records for all their customers over a 3 month period.
“”What was not explained at the time, Chesney notes, is that the FBI was using the Section 215 requests to obtain a broad array of records. For example, a top-secret FISC order disclosed last week by the Guardian showed that the FBI had used a single Section 215 request to direct Verizon to turn over “all call detail records or telephony metadata’’ of its customers for a three month period, literally millions of records.”
Enough of this BS. It needs to go back to classic surveillance processes established for years. The Patriot Act needs to be scrapped. Many of us feared this would happen and it did.
See if you can spot at least one FReeper who thinks it's totally wonderful that the NSA is spying on us all.
"I have no use for folks who don't place the Defense of this great Country above any other considerations."
Like freedom and liberty.
and a lot quicker than we ever imagined