Whomever authored and approved the Patriot Act fixed it for that. After J. Bamford revealed some details about capabilities after being vetted by Agency officials, it only takes a little research and some knowledge of the network to figure it out. If you know where the up and down links, nodes and other factors are and what their connection links are its 1,2,3.... ATT has worked with the no such agency for decades. How naive the .com, .net, .org, ad infinitum public is.

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