The NSA's vaunted cell phone metadata collection program, often defended on the grounds that its comprehensive sweep of information allows the government to uncover unseen connections, only collected ...

Bulk collection of metadata didn't seem to help with Paris. I think that (their intelligence failures) is just encouragement for the NSA to spy harder. So they just changed the name of the program, ...

i would not assume that they have ever stopped any program they thought was useful, regardless of what the courts told them to do. they do not follow laws, they consider it in-effecient to be bound by ...