Of course it’s my opinion I’m floating here, but I’m gonna put it out anyway.

FIRST: this has been really bugging me. Why depend on getting the truth from lying, opportunistic weasels when the actual proof is already available?

FAQ: What You Need to Know About the NSA's Surveillance Programs

https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-data-collection-faq

Now think about it. Individuals can be ‘caught up’ (Hahahaha) in their general (unconstitutional) data mining or they can be specifically targeted. Soooo, with all these capabilities and the fact this gang of thugs were already involved in framing Trump in June 2016...

To summarize, reporting indicates that, prior to June 2016, the Obama Justice Department and FBI considered a criminal investigation of Trump associates, and perhaps Trump himself, based on concerns about connections to Russian financial institutions. Preliminary poking around indicated that there was nothing criminal involved. Rather than shut the case down, though, the Obama Justice Department converted it into a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). FISA allows the government, if it gets court permission, to conduct electronic surveillance (which could include wiretapping, monitoring of e-mail, and the like) against those it alleges are “agents of a foreign power.” FISA applications and the evidence garnered from them are classified – i.e., we would not know about any of this unless someone had leaked classified information to the media, a felony.

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Not taking no for an answer, the Obama Justice Department evidently returned to the FISA court in October 2016, the critical final weeks of the presidential campaign. This time, the Justice Department submitted a narrowly tailored application that did not mention Trump. The court apparently granted it, authorizing surveillance of some Trump associates. It is unknown whether that surveillance is still underway, but the New York Times has identified – again, based on illegal leaks of classified information – at least three of its targets: Paul Manafort (the former Trump campaign chairman who was ousted in August), and two others whose connection to the Trump campaign was loose at best, Manafort’s former political-consulting business partner Roger Stone, and investor Carter Page. The Times report (from mid-January) includes a lot of heavy breathing about potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia; but it ultimately concedes that the government’s FISA investigation may have nothing to do with Trump, the campaign, or alleged Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election by hacking e-mail accounts.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/corner/obama-camp-di...

(Link to NY Slime’s article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-i...)

...does anyone really think all these emails and text and phone records aren’t already collected? Theoretically they would have been snagged ‘incidentally’, like OURS. Even on the off chance they weren’t picked up does it make sense that, what with the involvement of the Obama administration and the ‘intelligence’ community, the NSA wouldn’t have targeted Trump, his family, and all known ‘associates since they were going on the offensive to prove he was a RUSSIAN!!! collaborator? Isn’t that why Obama & Co. shit all over the Constitution? To ‘protect’ us from all evil doers???

I’m absolutely convinced that this information is recorded and stored in a big warehouse in UTAH

Background
The Utah Data Center, code-named Bumblehive, is the first Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative (IC CNCI) data center designed to support the Intelligence Community's efforts to monitor, strengthen and protect the nation. Our Utah "massive data repository" is designed to cope with the vast increases in digital data that have accompanied the rise of the global network.

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The 1.5 billion-dollar one million square-foot Bluffdale / Camp Williams LEED Silver facility houses a 100,000 sq-ft mission critical Tier III data center. The remaining 900,000 SF is used for technical support and administrative space. Our massive twenty building complex also includes water treatment facilities, chiller plants, electric substation, fire pump house, warehouse, vehicle inspection facility, visitor control center, and sixty diesel-fueled emergency standby generators and fuel facility for a 3-day 100% power backup capability.

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In 2004, the NSA launched a plan to use the Multiprogram Research Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to build a classified supercomputer designed specifically for cryptanalysis targeting the AES algorithm. Our classified NSA Oak Ridge facility made a stunning breakthrough that is leading us on a path towards building the first exaflop machine (1 quintillion instructions per second) by 2018. Since the capability to break the AES-256 encryption key within an actionable time period may still be decades away, our Utah facility is sized to store all encrypted (and thereby suspicious) data for safekeeping.

https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/

(If they can’t read it, they’ll store it until they can.)

SECONDLY: If they DON’T have that stuff, then their data collection is flawed and faulty. So what are we paying for? That’s a hell of a lot of money and resources for something that doesn’t work. (But I bet it does.)

U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans' international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a blueprint for the far broader National Security Agency surveillance that followed.

For more than two decades, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from the USA to as many as 116 countries linked to drug trafficking, current and former officials involved with the operation said. The targeted countries changed over time but included Canada, Mexico and most of Central and South America.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=undefined&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwjQ8fek5Y...

I could be totally wrong about all this. But I doubt it. This isn’t even a conspiracy theory. (IMO) I think it’s plain damn critical thinking. If they didn’t collect all pertinent info ‘incidentally’ what are the odds that they wouldn’t use all the technology at their fingertips to collect it intentionally? I’d say pretty darn slim.