NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
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, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
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Support Censure, now support impeachment too.
Sorry Specter, you KNOW this is illegal. This is what you have been hoping wasn't true this whole time. This is what Feingold knew had to be happening the whole time.
Tens of millions of American citizens getting spied on.
Now I think censure is too light. This is an impeachable offence.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans -- most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. 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, sources said in separate interviews.
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.
For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made -- across town or across the country -- to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others.
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Ok, lets look at this again. First of all, highlight that of the people being spied on, they "aren't suspected of any crime." What kind of program would need to collect this information? The simple truth is that since this information "does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations" it should be useless, except for that it has to be used to then listen in to the conversations you want to.
In other words, the only use for this information would be for them to figure out which conversations to listen to. It shows that they are collection information so that they can spy on who they want, when they want (without a warrant).