NSA's use of 'traffic shaping' allows unrestrained spying on Americans

“A former NSA executive turned whistleblower Bill Binney once described the executive order as a "blank check" for the intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance when other laws fail or don't reach far enough.”

http:// www.zdnet.com/article/legal-loopholes-unrestrained-nsa-surveillance-on-americans/

https:// www.eff.org/files/2015/01/23/20150117-speigel-explanation_of_apex_shaping_to_put_exfiltrating_network_traffic_into_patterns_that_allow_plausible_deniability.pdf