[txrangerette]

The NSA does NOT have a list of any NAMED, ordinary citizen's phone call numbers.

Forget for a second that it's numbers not content. It's also that the numbers aren't on a list under someone's name. This is just phone numbers and phone numbers and more phone numbers and what numbers these numbers have called or what numbers have called these numbers. They are looking for call patterns related to the al-Qaeda terror network. They have other- sourced intel on suspected members of this network, but they have no intel on anyone by name if not al- Qaeda connected and if no warrant is sought.

But I'm not sure this point is lost on the hysterical ones, sink...some of them might get the point but could have an agenda to take down President Bush and the Republican Party.

Hiding behind this issue, of course...

[ndt]

"It's also that the numbers aren't on a list under someone's name. This is just phone numbers and phone numbers and more phone numbers and what numbers these numbers have called or what numbers have called these numbers."

The law is written regarding "personally identifiable information". It does not have to be correlated with name, only that it could be correlated with a name.