You may not be familiar with Jennifer Granick, so let's start there. She's the Director of Civil Liberties for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. She was the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2007 to 2010.
Today in a Forbes article she details a few of the legal problems with the current surveillance practices of the NSA.
There's too much there to present in brief excerpts, so please read the article. I hope the last paragraph will whet your appetite:
First they came for the terrorists and the foreigners, and no one did anything. Then they came for the drug dealers. Then the tax cheats. Then the journalists. And that’s just what we know about. How much worse does it have to get before we say enough is enough?
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I don't remember how I got to this article from 2006, but it raises a question I'd really like to see answered. Are there some cases or programs that are revealed only to the presiding judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court?