The NSA misled judges for three years

According to this article, the NSA violated data-mining restrictions and misled judges on how the information was being used for three years:

The National Security Agency for three years violated restrictions on surveillance of U.S. telephone records and misled judges on how the data was used, according to intelligence documents declassified today.

The agency on a daily basis checked a select list of phone numbers against databases containing millions of call records, without meeting the legal standard required for such scrutiny, according to documents released by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to privacy groups today in response to lawsuits

  Of course, James Clapper had an excuse; he claims it was because:

a lack of shared understanding among various NSA components about how certain aspects of the complex architecture supporting the program functioned

  I have a simple solution to this problem; how about instead of using a secret court to unconstitutionally issue blanket warrants we actually go to a real court on an individual basis and get a constitutional warrant? Would that be too much to ask?