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Looks to me like Mrs. Tamerlan has very good counsel. Her father and grandfather were both Exeter and Yale. Bureau is gambling by using her conversations with T, since counsel, if confronted with recordings, might just go to the media and make it a hot TV issue ("they are recording all you phone calls"). My guess Bureau is not going to take that chance.

Legal theory behind justifying recording everything w/o warrants is that nobody is listening or reading or scanning the material. However once the subject becomes a person of interest, they go to a judge and get the warrant and look over the stored data. Not an expensive method for total control, if storage and processing costs are reasonable. They have billions. DHS is now going on counterfeit luggage raids. Talk about mission creep.

Does anyone in Congress have the cojones to stop this? Probably not.

Sad that you have to read a British paper to find analysis of this stuff.