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.