It's not just metadata – the NSA is getting everything
It also enrages me how they dismiss the metadata as a "nothing burger".<p>Does it occur to anyone how much leverage you can exert with that information alone in such areas as finance, divorce proceedings, opposition research, leak investigations, and good old fashioned blackmail?<p>To add to it, they don't even need a court order or oversight to do the metadata searches per Feinstein (today).