Proof, if any were needed

[mdlbear]

Or at least a strong indication of the Party Line, from this article

Former NSA Director Bob Inman said the use of telephone and other databases might not have violated privacy rights. That's because the initial explorations were automated and personal information wouldn't have spread any further in most cases \u2014 a position supported by a former Bush administration official familiar with the monitoring program.

"Computers may have sorted through hundreds of millions of messages without a person ever seeing it. So no one's e-mail or phone call has been compromised," Inman said. "The problem only starts when the information goes to an analyst to read."

So there you have it, just as I said here. Computer wiretapping isn't really wiretapping, torture that doesn't leave a mark isn't really torture, laws the president disagrees with aren't really laws, speech on the internet isn't really speech, and don't even get me started on freedom of religion.