Posted on 05/11/2006 7:27:32 AM PDT by CrawDaddyCA
WASHINGTON — The government is secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls in an effort to build a database of every call made within the country, it was reported Thursday.
AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telephone companies began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls to the National Security Agency program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said USA Today, citing anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement.
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Opps! Did a search, honest!
10,000,000 sets of phone records..........
365 days a year.................
average of 7.5 calls per day per phone ...............
Like Rush says: Run the numbers.
Hell, my kids text messaging must account for half of what the NSA has.
It's my understanding that these records have always been available, both nationally and locally. This looks like another one of those "sky is falling" releases designed to impugn the latest nominee.
It would be naive' to think they weren't. The roads are theirs, the phone lines are theirs, the cell towers are theirs. What part of the Constitution guarantees a right to privacy again?
Did you ever take a look at your cellphone records? Match them up with your spouse's. See who you call in common, and who is different. Now, go get the cellphone records for that third-party who shows up most frequently. See who they call ~ might be some surprises.
Confront your spouse. Call a lawyer.
So far NOTHING you will have looked at is secret, confidential, or private. Otherwise, those cellphone call records would not be sent by First-Class Mail along with your bill each month.
Now, after having discovered that call records are far from the private documents you thought they were, send an e-mail to a known AlQaida operative.
Sit quietly by your phone. You'll get a call shortly.
BTW, regarding the latter event, I have unlisted phone numbers. Once I called an FBI field agent on duty on Sunday evening concerning information I had that might help them locate the direction some very wanted people were headed. Forgot to leave my number on the answering machine. Shortly, though, I got a call. Turns out the wanted folks went toward one of the places I'd pointed out. Never heard from them again.
So, how did the FBI find me? Simple ~ my call record ~ on their PBX. Every call you make is logged on a phone company switch, and may even be logged on the other party's switch.
This is normal.
HC is secretly grinning because someday the database could be "theirs" and they can finally get all those "nasty militias".
Yep, we're all gonna be screwed. Next thing you know someone will ask you for your Social Security card number, or put up cameras to get your plate number for a traffic violation.
BTW ... I really liked the "secretly collecting" part. They'd better not let this get out.
Hope they don't think, "Honey, do we need more milk for the kids?" is some kind of code.
Really? Why?
They can trace my calls all they want. They're just gonna be bored.
Since my son left for a Navy - a year and a half ago - nobody calls my house. Darn it's quiet around here!
This has been discussed at great length here on FR, at least since the 1990s.
The Left (I know. I know. This is from Fox News.) has probably raised this issue in its unceasing, relentless, tiresome attempt to incite public hysteria against the Bush Administration, the Republican Party, and anything that conflicts with the Leftist agenda and its cynical grasp for power.
9/11 was never repeated thanks to President Bush--and his surveillance programs.
Fact is if any of us "Patriots" feel the need for personal privacy we'll need to leave this country. Our lives are an open book to anyone who has access to these data bases.
What's disturbing is the leaking of National Sec Info.
Quiet is good.
All my calls come in while I'm trying make for or eat dinner with my family.
Don't be a sucker. Your reaction is exactly what the Democrats and Media WANT you to have over this, even though the story is total nonsense and worthless.
Democrats want to use this as part of their coming excuse to start taking confirmation hearing into "Executive Session", so that the TV cameras wont catch them making fools of themselves, and the media will be free to report only quotes that are helpful to Democrats, leaving any information helpful to Conservatives on the cutting room floor. .
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