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by tracker1 4090 days ago
There's a difference between starting a new surveillance of a suspect of their public activity starting on a given date with resources dedicated to that specific task and going back through a surveillance network (that should never have been established) that spies on everyone.

Not to mention scale... having a few thousand police officers patrolling a city is acceptable... Having several battalions of a hundred thousand soldiers, not so much.