They collect it straight from the company after it's already been transmitted. It's not a wiretap, it's more akin to an automated subpoena enforcement.
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That’s just what the public knows. It goes far beyond that.
Most of the good projects in DoD space have Star Wars names. BESPIN, JEDI, etc. PRISM is a mechanism, one aspect of a much larger machine.
They collect it straight from the company after it's already been transmitted. It's not a wiretap, it's more akin to an automated subpoena enforcement.