The Department of Justice has decided to give up it’s investigation into the illegal wiretapping by the NSA. My guess is that it went something like this:
DOJ: Bad NSA, you’ve been wiretapping without warrants.
NSA: Yea, um, it’s for, um, the war on terrorists… yea, that’s it.
DOJ: Mmmmmmkay, we need to see some records then.
NSA: Sure, but you need security clearance.
DOJ: Ok, so, uh, we come to you for security clearance, right? So, we need clearance.
NSA: ‘Tuff.