This is lovely. Two FISA judges were "informed" that the NSA was going to be collecting all of our phone records, per Orrin Hatch.
Two judges on the secretive court that approves warrants for intelligence surveillance were told of the broad monitoring programs that have raised recent controversy, a Republican senator said Tuesday, connecting a court to knowledge of the collecting of millions of phone records for the first time....Oh, well, if judges were "informed" that we were going to begin mass illegal spying on American citizens, then that makes it constitutional and legal. Silly me, I thought judges were the ones who decided such things.
Asked if the judges somehow approved the operations, Hatch said, "That is not their position, but they were informed."
