"Report: NSA admits listening to phone calls without warrants"
Hill Jun 15
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/305803-report-nsa-admits-listening-to-phone-calls-without-warrants
"Rep. Jerrold Nadler, (D-N.Y.) said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday that he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed “simply based on an analyst deciding that,” . . .

 . . .  the authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too because the same legal standards apply to Internet communications.

Earlier this week, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee accused the Obama administration of breaking the law by collecting the phone records of millions of Americans. . . ."