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Unfortunately I don't expect we'll see much. I'm not an expert on the NSA but I've read a few books. Considering Jewel relates to NSA actions perpetrated from 1998 to 2003, publicized in 2006, litigated in 2008, dismissed in 2010, reinstated in 2011 and now litigated again in 2014, I think it's safe to say that anything of any real note has been expunged, purged, destroyed, erased, forgotten, circular-filed, binned and otherwise annihilated. We are, after all, talking about voice and data dragnetting back when Worldcom was a company, Friendster was a social network, Altavista was a search engine and this was a smartphone:

(I had one)