Did you not read the story?
They don't need specific warrants because the execuitve order covers every sinlge call made using the Verizon network. It also prevents Verizon from even admitting that such an order exists.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 10:34, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

From the original WP article, it happens, they don't care but it's still illegal.

Analysts who use the system from a Web portal at Fort Meade, Md., key in “selectors,” or search terms, that are designed to produce at least 51 percent confidence in a target’s “foreignness.” That is not a very stringent test. Training materials obtained by The Post instruct new analysts to make quarterly reports of any accidental collection of U.S. content, but add that “it’s nothing to worry about.”


www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story_2.html
(socynicalsohip, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 10:39, Reply)

Windy Pig writes articles?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 10:51, Reply)

Did you get confused between the words "executive" and "court"
m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order
(PsychoChomp, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 10:43, Reply)

I don't really care.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 10:50, Reply)

...but that's what they want you to do.

(socynicalsohip, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 10:53, Reply)