YEAH!!
It’s called probable cause. It’s called the constitution.
Hopefully now, they will craft policy that allows intelligence to do it’s job and not treat American citizens as suspects.
Big win for the constitution. Thank you Senator Paul.
The surveillance protocol depends on obtaining information relating to roughly "everybody," but the government argues that this does not make anybody a suspect. The reason everybody's communication patterns is necessary, is that "suspicious" activity is defined as deviation from "normal" activity, and without a body of "normal" activity, there is no way to discern the "suspicious" stuff.
Whether that makes you feel like a suspect is personal to you. I'm personally offended by the surveillance, but there is absolutely nothing that I can do to have it curtailed.