Jon Aravosis goes after CNN national security correspondent David Ensor for saying no laws have been broken because its likely that both the government and the telecommunications companies legally vetted everything before proceeding with creating the world's largest database of US domestic telephone calls affecting tens of millions of American citizens. 

While I'm sure Ensor thinks he's acting the responsible dispassionate veteran reporter in poo-pooing growing outrage over the extent of the NSA program, if he looked a little closer at the USA Today article he'd see that one company, Qwest, did have major legal concerns and they even went so far as asking the NSA to have the Attorney General's office offer a legal finding authorizing the turning over of their phone records.  When NSA refused to do that or provide your typical FISA court order, Qwest refused to cooperate. 

Me thinks a much more interesting story would look at how much effort the other companies went to to explore the legal ramifications of their cooperation in this program before they said yes to the NSA?