We‘ve written a few times about Executive Order 12333, which we‘ve described as „the NSA‘s biggest loophole.“ It‘s the unchecked power, created entirely via executive order, for the NSA to do anything it wants to spy on anyone — including Americans — so long as that data is collected overseas. Remember how the NSA had hacked into Google and Yahoo‘s datacenters? That was done overseas under EO 12333, allowing them to do whatever they wanted with that information — content and metadata — with no oversight at all.