Ah okay, the law says so, so it must be acceptable.

I just want everyone to be aware of this. Every call or chat conversation that is intercepted should have an audible/text message saying "beep. beep. Sergeant Tom smith has joined this conversation as allowed by wiretapping regulations for your safety and security".

Followed by "This conversation is now being recorded by Sergeant Tom Smith".

No we should ignore the loons in Washington and instead use Session/Briar to communicate privately. What Senator Timmy gonna to do, pass a law? :^)

While they have the power to backdoor telecom networks for surveillance, what they actually want is a way of doing this without legal oversight or recourse to traditional legal gatekeeping like warrants.

So we should not shrug this off just because "they already can do it".

Pretty much, as right now with proper legal justification the government can access any communication, or at least get the meta data associated with.