Except, the taps are underground.
So - the whole nonsense with the super-secret data requests to these companies was never anything more than a cover for the illegal taps already in place. Really - a grand diversion. Get your warrant from the super-secret court to ask for what you already have, and keep them busy fussing about the hairy scary demands so they wouldn’t notice the taps. And it worked really, really well!
Until it didn’t…
