Re: Why are they so scared of getting a warrant?
Because if the friendly judge is going to sign it anyway, why bother with the sham?
Judicial oversight has just been a legal veneer in the past to fend off any pesky public disquiet. But the lack of any significant backlash to the Snowden revelations has demonstrated that the public is mostly quite content with constant surveillance, provided it's someone else who gets arrested, so they've presumably decided that the legal veneer simply isn't worth the effort of polishing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
