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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Ignorant as usual.
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But you are taking some big steps here. You are saying "without any prior authorization ? no warrant, no court clearance, no signature on a dotted line" but I don't believe this is true.
Snowden claims he could pull up any information any time without a warrant. This might be true. Somewhere along the line there are in fact computers that can pull this information - there always has been so long as we've had phone companies. But to access this data without a warrant is illegal.
Getting a warrant seems to be easy, it's a rubber stamp process, so... Why wouldn't they just get a warrant? It seems to be nearly instant and automatically approved.