Here - USA Today - NSA secretly collecting phone records of millions

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
Updated 5/11/2006 12:30 AM ET


By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY
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.

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.

[papau]

1. Sort on "fuck bush" and add names to no-flight list

not hard to program, is it......

[izzie]

2. Didn't you figure this was going on all along? I did

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[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. Sorry, this is a duplicate - this story has already been posted

The mods may want to delete this thread or combine it with the other.