Carbon Counting Satellite/ NSA is Watching You....Legally?

Missoulian: NASA launches carbon satellite after 2009 failure
OCO-2 Lifts Off on Carbon-Counting Mission
“NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, is expected to provide insight into how the planet adjusts to the increased production of carbon dioxide from a vantage point in orbit that will allow it to take readings on a scale never achieved before.
While ground stations have been monitoring carbon dioxide concentrations, OCO-2 will be the first spacecraft to conduct a global-scale reading over several seasons. The spacecraft is expected to produce detailed readings to provide regional sources of carbon dioxide as well as sinks for the greenhouse gas.”

Missoulian: NSA's Internet monitoring said to be legal

PCLOB-Section-702-Report

“In response to the requests from Congress and the President, the Board began a comprehensive study of the two NSA programs. The Board held public hearings and met with the Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice, White House, and congressional committee staff, privacy and civil liberties advocates, academics, trade associations, and technology and communications companies.”
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PCLOB-Report-on-the-Telephone-Records-Program

“These disclosures caused a great deal of concern both over the extent to which they damaged national security and over the nature and scope of the surveillance programs they purported to reveal. Subsequently, authorized disclosures from the government confirmed both programs. Under one, the NSA collects telephone call records or metadata — but not the content of phone conversations — covering the calls of most Americans on an ongoing basis, subject to renewed approvals by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ( “ FISC” or  “FISA  court” ). This program was approved by the FISC pursuant to Section 215 of the USA P ATRIOT Act (“Patriot Act”). Under the second program, the government collects the content of electronic communications, including phone calls and email s , where the targets are reasonably believed to be non - U.S. persons located outside the United States. 2 Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act is the basis for this program.”  

July 2, 2014 Public Meeting
“The Board will meet at 10 am in public session on July 2nd at the JW Marriot Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC in Salon III. At the meeting, the Board will vote on the formal issuance of its report to the President, Congress and the public. Additional information on the Board's review of the surveillance program, such as its prior public hearings, is available at www.pclob.gov. The July 2nd meeting is open to the public and a meeting notice has been published in the Federal Register at https://www.federalregister.gov/a/2014-14603.”