[ajross]

It's good to be skeptical, and it's important to counsel against irrational or knee jerk judgements. But you're way, way too far on the other side of this.

When a related warrant, having "gone through courts and lawyers", turns out to have been a blanket demand for all call data from all Verizon customers, I think it's reasonable to assume that perhaps the checks and balances aren't as robust as we'd hoped.

And for those outside the US, a response like this seems quite reasonable to me. After all item #2 is "Uncover the facts".