Everywhere it says 'quality' I think it's supposed to say 'quantity'. This was quite confusing, since the world 'quality' appears throughout (and a total of 4 times) but the word 'quantity' appears only once at the 2nd to last quote, and even then it's contradictory;

  There’s nothing that says that they can’t comment, they’re
  allowed to make specific comments about _quantity_, there’s
  absolutely no ban on them commenting on the _quality_ of those
  they’ve received.

Or is it actually that the argument was over commenting on the "quality" of the NSL, and if so, what does that even mean?