[Realism]

collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls in an effort to build a database of every call made within the country

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.

[MizSterious]

Oh please. NO CONVERSATIONS WERE RECORDED, only the numbers that were called. Guess what? Most of this is public information anyway. Law enforcement and others have been able to pull someone's phone records to see who called who all along.