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Originally Posted by flounder
If the NSA conducted surveillance on the massive scale that is alleged, it would have been impossible for the FISA court to have approved every single instance. They would have had to give blanket approval for it, in which case they are no longer serving as a check.
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Just what has been alleged? Unless I missed something, it was that the NSA was 'pre-staging' the metadata. Even though the data was being gathered, they still had to go to the FISA court for approval to access the data. There haven't been any formal allegations at this point that the data was accessed without FISA approval.