Re Telecom Spying ... why the sham of routing calls out of the country?

[Stinky The Clown]

The Bushies were bound and determined to spy on Americans .... most likely so they could do shit like beat John Kerry and legions of other, lesser candidates. And so they can keep tabs on what's coming out of the tube right at them. There are myriad reasons for doing it.

But why the sham of routing calls outside the US, tapping them, and then return them to the US? Why not just do what they wanted to do? After all, they know the Democrats in Congress will only do silly shit like look into baseball juicers and keep important stuff off the table.

Even routing calls outside then back is really, at its core, illegal. So why the sham? Why the bother?

I don't get it.