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Definitely. Not exactly sure why so many want to construe this as recording phone calls and reading emails ~ so, what is it, do they want Obama to do that sort of thing, or is this just a smokescreen to foment dissent and confusion.

I saw an article yesterday where some moron representative (yeah, that's redundant) was attempting to compare the NSA tracking every cellphone call to a phone book. Of course that idiotic comparison doesn't take into account that a phone book doesn't tell you who knows who, when they speak, for how long, and from where. Perhaps if the NSA had asked for a list of their customers, that would be similar, but traffic analysis is NOT simlpy a list of people's names.

You folks who keep trying to downplay this, either don't have any idea of how much information you can get from this kind of traffic analysis, or think we don't know. Your line isn't selling here.

Actually, I've done it myself for the purpose of guiding employees in correct and proper and lawful use of the telephone system they were using at work.

There's simply amazing stuff in there.

Then there was this scam going on where nonprofits were given a cheap rate to call donors and then mail brochures to them. A deal too good to be true, when the scammer dialed the number, he had the name, number, amount of donation, etc. ALL FOR FREE. He would then sell that donor list to others!

I think you don't understand that NSA was doing nothing new ~ the gypsies got there long before they did ~ might even have some of them on the rolls.

I'd think recording conversations would be among the last things you'd want to do since it'd slow you down getting to the good stuff.

Note, some of this stuff falls into the category of prognostication by auguries ~ but without the birds. It's still good stuff, and a reasonably sharp intelligence analyst, or con man, can deduce ALL SORTS OF THINGS from it.