Originally Posted by Rochard

It seems to me this is blown completely out of proportion. The way the media is selling this is that the US Government had direct access to track everyone at any time for any reason. The companies involved are saying that the US Government does not have "direct access" to their servers. The US government is telling us this has nothing to do with Americans, and in any case warrants need to be issued - which is done by a panel of judges appointed by Congress?

So if warrants are required, and are issued by judges appointed by Congress, and not for Americans but for terrorists in other countries.... Seems like a non story to me.