[dirtboy]

Analyzing phone call traffic to look for clusters of callers associated with al Qaeda is a very good thing to do

Well, why stop there? Let's allow the FBI to inspect our homes without a warrant. Pull over cars and search them without probable cause. Make all of us submit DNA samples for a national database. We can really catch all the terrorists then.

[toddlintown]

They analyze traffic patterns, and if needed, apply for a warrent to listen in.

Get the facts before your next hissy-fit.

[tallhappy]

Your response is irrational and hysterical.

There is no entry or search involved.

Your analogies ("Let's allow the FBI to inspect our homes without a warrant. Pull over cars and search them without probable cause) are not reflective of what is done.

You are rather proposing one cannot look at another persons house and see what is in common between house in a given neighborhood.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Phone companies have been collecting connection data for YEARS!!!!!

[VictoryGal]

Oh, silly dirtboy, didn't you know? If you want to keep your Constitutional freedoms you must have SOMEthing to hide. Right? /sarc

[Cementjungle]

Make all of us submit DNA samples for a national database.

I kinda like this idea.