This right here is the contentious "Section 215", which is colloquially summarized as get everything, sort it later.
Its broad-sweeping and baseless nature is what's ruffling lots of feathers, and NSA's General Alexander praised it frequently in the much-reported congressional hearings from ~3 months ago.
The FISC has recently declassified their court opinion on it (they love it):
This right here is the contentious "Section 215", which is colloquially summarized as get everything, sort it later.
Its broad-sweeping and baseless nature is what's ruffling lots of feathers, and NSA's General Alexander praised it frequently in the much-reported congressional hearings from ~3 months ago.
The FISC has recently declassified their court opinion on it (they love it):
http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/br13-09-primary...