re: #4 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

And this is kind of awesome:

sun-sentinel.com

Basically, the prosecution on this case obtained five guys cellphone records (and by the way, the barrier to the cops obtaining your bank or cell phone records is not very high at all: you basically just have to be a legitimate suspect in a crime) but this defendant’s records were lost— so he’s now petitioning to have the NSA confirm the location of his cell phone calls from their metadata repository.

Heh nice try but I don’t think its going anywhere. So far we only have the court order for MCI, Inc. (d/b/a Verizon Business), not Cellco Partnership (d/b/a Verizon Wireless). Plus you know, the whole national security thing…