They've apparently even listened in on the Quakers. (Say, why couldn't they listen in on that sicko Warren Jeffs and the FLDS? Why'd it have to be the Quakers, for goodness sake?!?) AND , they're building what they hope will be the "largest database ever".
Bush's poll numbers are in the toilet and, as we pointed out, the good news for him is that he can just do whatever he wants! What's the consequences....LOWER POLLS? Big F**king Deal. They're already as low as they can go. GWB: It's my party and I'll spy if I want to. So there!
WaPo: President Bush, responding to a newspaper report on a previously undisclosed program to track the phone call patterns of millions of Americans, insisted today that U.S. intelligence activities he has authorized are lawful and aimed strictly at the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
USA Today: "The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews."
