FlyerInHI — I’m not hoping for immediate legislative change. However, now that Snowden made the program public, and its existence has been admitted by the government, every single phone company customer has standing to seek an injunction in Federal court.
If this gets solved, this will get solved through the judiciary. Remember that Federal judges are lifers, and many of them were appointed during less paranoid and more rational times. I suspect that at least some of the strict constructionists appointed during the Reagan and Bush I years will take a very dim view of a wholesale violation of 4th Amendment rights.
Since this will go through civilian and not FISA courts, the chances of getting a judge that’s an NSA lapdog diminish considerably.
