Obama's justice department had secretly granted permission for the NSA to deliberately spy on Americans' phone calls, and to retain stored phone calls for extraordinary lengths of time.

Let's recap. The NSA illegally spied on everyone, stopped no terrorists but busted pot smokers and tax cheats, then told the Department of Justice to lie about how this illegal evidence was obtained.

None of this was legal. The NSA was engaged in a decades long criminal conspiracy and no one responsible for this unforgivable sin is going to be shot, hanged, murdered or given a stern talking to.  

Billions and billions and billions of taxpayer dollars spent to send pot smokers to jail and to gain LOVEINT so paranoid childish jealous NSA employees can find out who she is fucking now.