FISA court's broad decisions reportedly justified widespread data-gathering

Officials who support the NSA's surveillance program have argued that it's strongly limited and targeted only towards specific people or incidents. But sources have told The Wall Street Journal that the court handling surveillance requests spent the past years broadening the scope of when the NSA can gather data. According to present and former officials familiar with the FISA court, a 2006 decision allowed bulk collection of phone records by defining them as still "relevant" to an investigation...