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"HeyBub" wrote:


Correct. The FISA court.

However, the Protect America Act of 2007 (PAA) was signed into law on August
5, 2007. It removed the warrant requirement for government surveillance of
foreign intelligence targets "reasonably believed" to be outside of the
United States.[1] The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 reauthorized many
provisions of the Protect America Act
And it is a well established point of law in the US that as long
as the original tap is legal (or in this case not illegal) then there
are no requirements to get the okay to listen in on conversations and
use the evidence thereby obtained.
So, say there is a legal wire on the phone of Goomba one, anything
Goomba 2 says on the phone, even if G2 is calling from his own phone,
can be used against him. If the phone being tapped is outside the US,
then there mere fact that someone inside the US calls that phone is
irrelevant. Now if the tap is on the US phone, that is different.

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