This is straight out of some evil planet visited in Star Trek. AP reports that “The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth . . .”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm?csp=34
The USA Today article says, “This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity . . .”
What this means among other things is that Team Bush can infer from “calling patterns” (I am a Verizon customer) whom I am calling and who is calling me, whether I’m at home, my destination if I’m traveling or even commuting, even when my next article is coming out and where it’s coming out.
“Terrorist activity”? Never happen. But as a patriotic American, I never see the president on television without thinking of
BTW, there is no scantest assurance here that they aren’t doing the same thing with emails. Every Democrat in Congress ought to be demanding the open release, from BushGovt, of all information collected on his/her own constituents. Any Dem or Repub who doesn’t -- needs a swiftly moving primary opponent who will promise to do so.
Stumble It!