ご指名質問: scooped up

NSAの記事から取り上げます。scoopにはいろいろな意味があります。シャベルという意味もありますね。
今回は面白い意味なのでこれをぜひHaramiiに解説お願いします。

NSA collected thousands of online communications by Americans
WASHINGTON--The nations' top intelligence official is declassifying three secret U.S. court opinions showing how the National Security Agency scooped up tens of of thousands of emails annually over three years and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism, how it revealed the error to the court and changed how it gathered Internet communications.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/08/21/nsa-collected-thousands-of-us-communications/2681809/