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Originally Posted by Jimellow
The article states otherwise.
From the article, with highlights:
Warrants are required as per the ruling highlighted above. In this case, Bush used his executive power to bypasss such requirements; and I question how he is able to justify such a decision to be "lawful and necessary."
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The article is misleading. Yes, you need a warrant to obtain phone records of an individual. But that is not exactly what is going on. There are no names/individuals attached to these numbers. It is nothing but a list of numbers. Its the same data you get in the mail every month. Do they need a court order to "obtain" the data and send you a bill? No.
Once there is a suspected terrorist calling pattern observed, whatever that may be, NSA goes to a judge, follows the law, and gets a court order for the names connected to that call.
This is more of nothing. I wonder what they'll come up with next week.