Reply #9: Can anyone explain to me...

[Mithras61]

why his claims that this is legal sound so much like "I didn't do it. No one saw me. You can't prove a thing."?

Beyond that, the claim '"The program's legal, it's designed to protect civil liberties, and it's necessary,"' is pure BS. The FBI wants the NSA to stop dumping their "intelligence leads" on the FBI because it's a huge waste of precious resources (and doesn't produce anything exclusive), and the "program" is a clear violation of either FISA, the Fourth Amendment, or both!