The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Prudence]

I don't understand why they wouldn't get a pen register for this info. Did they? I haven't actually been following this story. Pen registers are super easy to get. At least according to what we studied, which is but a narrow part of the whole topic, the reason they're easy to get is that it's considered "public" info - but the gov't is still supposed to get judicial approval.