re: #217 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

No, the legal underpinning for the NSA domestic metadata logging comes from pen registers.

The ACLU has come to a different conclusion, and I agree with them.

The government’s new surveillance programs have infiltrated most of the communications technologies we have come to rely on. They are largely enabled by two problematic laws passed by Congress under a national security premise: the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). While the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) is supposed to oversee the government’s surveillance activities, it operates in near-total secrecy through one-sided procedures that heavily favor the government.