"why is this on the front page?"

because someone found and read this wiki and decided to share it with others who also found it interesting so they upvoted it. now here we are

No no, I'm in agreement of this post being relevant, I typoed :(

Lawful interception is not for "three letter agencies", but for the police (TLAs have their own totally different ways to get this data, in the US they even have their own courts for this). So these are generally documented, judicial processes.

Lawful interception is precisely not made for "three letter agencies", since the latter derive the majority of their power from not spying on the law subjects of their own country. Although the US have of course intentionally muddled this with FISC and at times outright disregard for that simple principle.

The US really needs a distinction between executive powers (which exist because legislative bodies grant the executive branch wide latitude), and legislative powers (specific things the legislature has said to do).

Edit: I meant to type To, not Go. Go makes no grammatical sense :/