Dianne Feinstein: No Court Order Needed, Just Reasonable Suspicion

One would think that someone in Washington would know what was going on. As of late Senator Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein is telling the press that NSA doesn't need a court order to query metadata.

“To search the database, you have to have reasonable, articulable cause to believe that that individual is connected to a terrorist group,” Feinstein told reporters. “Then you can query the numbers. There is no content. You have the name, and the number called, whether it’s one number or two numbers. That’s all you have… if you want to collect content, then you get a court order.”

Before we were told that the data couldn't be touched without a court order. Also we were told there were numbers without names.( anyone can get a name for a number just Google it). So even though the NSA or other intelligence agencies must return to the secret FISA Court to get authorization to eavesdrop on a call, they do not need to ask the court to search the “metadata” that NSA collects from phone providers. Officials must only conclude for themselves that they have a “reasonable, articulable” suspicion about someone and then they may query their database. No probable cause, no court order-just reasonable, articulable -whatever the hell that means-suspicion