[EricT.]

First call records are not the same as listening in on phone calls.

No, it's not, but:

Breaking: NSA Eavesdropped on People Whom They Had Personal Grudges

Officials: NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans

To think they weren't listening in on phone calls without a valid court order is gullibility on a dangerous level.

[muawiyah]

Anecdotal evidence absent names, dates, places.....