NSA's criterion for wiretapping people
mardi 18 juin 2013 à 14:00A discussion between a congressman and an official suggests that NSA analysts looking at people's metadata are allowed to decide on their own which of those people fit a pre-approved general criterion, and then wiretap them.
This supports Snowden's statement that he could listen to anyone's phone calls. Perhaps he would not have been authorized to do this arbitrarily, but he could have done it.