Sure they ask permission. This is old stuff.
Everything we do, electronically - email, telephone calls, faxes, cc purchases, texting etc - is being vacuumed-up by the NSA in that new Bluffdale, Utah facility:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Yet, they deny it:
I’m sure 0traitor is watching our backs.
"If only Comrade Stalin knew!"
The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.
1] What good does it do except to establish the precedent that they can do it for whatever flimsy excuse they can devise. Scarey enough in itself.And it should be stopped.
2] It will do me no good to start or end my calls with “FUBO and you too NSA.”
I’m sure I’ll be (if not already) on their “list” very soon. I recently took the error flags from e-verify when obama’s info is put into it and sent it to ICE to report an illegal employee.
Just as soon as one scandalous revelation pops up, another takes its place in the most evil of all regimes!
Obama, the phony fakir, knows nothing about anything. His entire resume was a trumped-up lie.
5.56mm
And you thought Blackbriar in ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ was just fanciful sci-fi.