It's not wiretaps, it's data mining
by Tom Temple
20 January 2007
Everybody is talking about the Bush Admin taking a step back and deciding to go to the FISA court with it’s wiretapping program. None of the mainstream outlets seem to appreciate that what FISA does is give out warrants for wiretaps. What the NSA is doing is data mining. Unless FISA starts giving out warrants addressed to everybody, it’s not going to work.
Well, Slate noticed.
