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"in the United States"

What about "outside the United States". If all traffic is routed elsewhere, would that still count? I'm no fan of Hank Johnson - but I wish he'd amended his questions to get an on-the-record statement about whether communications are ever routing outside the country to circumvent wiretap laws.

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"may not intentionally target a United States person reasonably believed to be located outside the United States"

The trouble is that they're hoovering up every piece of data they can get their hands on. They never "intentionally target" anyone in particular. So all of the qualifiers are meaningless, because they do all the data collection ahead of time and the qualifiers listed only apply to what data they can collect, not what they can use it for (or who they can use it against) once they have it.

And really, at the end of the day any restrictions only govern what they can use in court.

Always tricky to prove intention, especially when so many related details would be secret.

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