The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals confirms what‘s already known about the NSA‘s domestic surveillance: it‘s not just for terrorism.

The NSA collections — done in the FBI‘s name — are supposed to only gather info related to international terrorism. But that requirement has been phased out. The NSA „tips“ a certain amount of data to the FBI for its own use and it has been shown in the past to do the same for the DEA, which it then instructs to obscure the origin of its info.

An opinion [PDF] just released by the Appeals Court, says basically the same thing: