You just don't get it, do you?
The squawking is not about monitoring calls between the US and overseas; it is the monitoring of US citizens to ensure that whistleblowers, FBI agents and those involved in CIA crime cases dealing with international drug smuggling are caught in time before the stuff leaks out to the public.
No matter how tight a net they drop; they'll never control them all.
But the crack down is happening, and the rest of the true Americans are not taking it anymore.
We were warned about Echelon YEARS ago, now it's STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE with the federal government.
This thing has it's roots with a 20 year old scandal from the Cutulo <Affadavit>.