Let me just point out something that has not been at all obvious from the reportage: the metadata the government was gathering was for Verizon Business Network, which is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than Verizon Wireless. The reason I am having to point this out is because I have now read at least a dozen different breathless write-ups about this, and I have not seen a SINGLE REPORTER who has bothered to read the warrant ONLINE, and who figured out that Verizon Business Network is run by a guy who is completely different than the guy who runs Verizon Wireless. In fact, I’m going to make a wild guess here and assume that the two entities are stovepiped in some way so that the international portion of Verizon can avoid having to pay any U.S. taxes.