We learned last week that the court—and to my eye quite unsurprisingly—had granted the Department of Justice’s request to tweak minimization procedures applicable to the 215 program, among other things by having the FISC pre-approve the NSA’s determinations of “reasonable and articulable suspicion” (“RAS”).  

This reform is probably the most important result of the meta-data debate.

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