http://bigstory.ap.org/article/acc54fc0c64c4c3eae29b8ac380cc065/ap-exclusive-snowden-debate-inside-nsa
“To address their concerns, the former senior official and other NSA dissenters in 2009 came up with a plan that tracks closely with the Obama proposal that the Senate failed to advance on Tuesday. The officials wanted the NSA to stop collecting the records, and instead fashion a system for the agency to quickly send queries to the telephone companies as needed, letting the companies store the records as they are required to do under telecommunications rules.”

With CivicRoom of the User Verified Social Telematics project, we’ve devised a system that would allow for such needed, legal and constitution function for criminal and national security investigations but in such a way that its constitutional would be under the citizen-jury like bodies controlled by the users, through extremely accountable service providing organizations.