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by lern_too_spel 2970 days ago
They've redefined nothing. See section 2 of https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Minimization%20Procedure.... All the definitions seem reasonable.

The definitions you're thinking of came from conspiracy theory blogs in the aftermath of the Snowden leaks, which proliferated because the numbers didn't add up when taken together with Greenwald's mistaken assertion that PRISM is a full-take program.