dat contaminated the data base with message logs they had no authority to collect. i want to make sure i understand and our viewers understand, this was a tech problem they didn t fix rather than a philosophical or national security decision that we don t need this anymore? well, i think it s kind of both. it turns out to be extremely hard to make this thing work. it looks like it was the problem is more on the telecom side than on the nsa side. the companies are sending more information and they re supposed to and that contaminates the system and has, you know, replicating effects when they go to look back at the second hop of numbers. but they have been working on it as i understand it for a long time, trying to make it work and it s expending a huge amount of engineering resources and the value they re getting from this program has always been questionable. one of the things that came out after revealed in the post