[jimparkins]

When I see this all I think is that these are the requests from lower level agents who have to fill in paperwork to get their data. I just cannot now believe that upper levels of the intelligence agencies do not have complete and total access.

[mpyne]

For a system like PRISM, they wouldn't have total access, as that system still requires Yahoo to voluntarily hand over the data.

For "upstream" collection Yahoo would simply have never known anyways so there's nothing for Yahoo to report on.

[Wingman4l7]

And you can just hear the guys in the upper levels saying "Aw, they're trying to do it by the book... how cute!"