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Don't get me wrong, I'm not much in favor of such a program if it is as comprehensive as it's being made out to be, but I'd rather have it in place right now than see another 9-11 take place.
Ya always have to consider such things being in the wrong hands.
A snowball rolled off the top of a hill becomes a really big snowball by the time it gets to the bottom of the hill.

I'm not much in favor of such a program if it is as comprehensive as it's made out to be.

How "comprehensive" can it be if the phone companies (i.e. Bell South, Verizon, etc) DONT EVEN PROVIDE the govt. with any names or addresses associated with any numbers?? (check the USA article)

To me, this is no different than the govt. keeping track of letters from overseas that are sent to a known or suspected alQaeda terror cell in the USA.

Except in THIS case, the govt. doesn't even get the benefit of the ADDRESS on the front of the suspect letter.

Under this anti-NSA logic, the US should have gotten a court order before it began monitoring those Nazi submarines which came inside US territorial waters during WWII. After all, we don't want to violate those NAZI's inherent constitutional rights, now do we??