> But an organize "we'll spy on yours if you spy on ours" arrangement, particularly with a "don't ask for it, we'll just give it to you" understanding. That's violating the intent of legal and constitutional protections every which way.

That is exactly my point. And it's horrible, it's the government thuggishly wiping its ass with the Constitution. East Germany would have swooned in ecstasy at all the intelligence porn collected by the NSA.