mr. rockwell? call for you....
heck, we knew that orwell was prophetic. but rockwell?
NSA has records of billions of U.S. phone calls
[news.com, free]
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States, according to reports.
USA Today said Thursday that the NSA, which is in charge of a domestic spying program, has been building up the database using records provided by three major phone companies--AT&T, Verizon Communications and BellSouth--but that the program "does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations."
The newspaper said its sources for the story were "people with direct knowledge of the arrangement," but it did not give their names or describe their affiliation.
The existence of an NSA eavesdropping program launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks was revealed in December.
Defending the controversial eavesdropping program, President Bush and his administration officials have said it aims to uncover links between international terrorists and their domestic collaborators and only targets communications between a person inside the United States and a person overseas.
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," the paper quoted one source as saying. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. borders, it said the source added. [more, emphasis mine]
...if this doesn't scare you, you are incapable of fright (i suppose)! hit it, rockwell!
I don't know anymore
Are the neighbors watching me
Well is the mailman watching me
And I don't feel safe anymore, oh what a mess
I wonder who's watching me now?
Who?
The IRS?
I always feel like somebody's watching me
--rockwell, "Somebody's Watching Me"
NSA has records of billions of U.S. phone calls
[news.com, free]
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States, according to reports.
USA Today said Thursday that the NSA, which is in charge of a domestic spying program, has been building up the database using records provided by three major phone companies--AT&T, Verizon Communications and BellSouth--but that the program "does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations."
The newspaper said its sources for the story were "people with direct knowledge of the arrangement," but it did not give their names or describe their affiliation.
The existence of an NSA eavesdropping program launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks was revealed in December.
Defending the controversial eavesdropping program, President Bush and his administration officials have said it aims to uncover links between international terrorists and their domestic collaborators and only targets communications between a person inside the United States and a person overseas.
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," the paper quoted one source as saying. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. borders, it said the source added. [more, emphasis mine]
...if this doesn't scare you, you are incapable of fright (i suppose)! hit it, rockwell!
I don't know anymore
Are the neighbors watching me
Well is the mailman watching me
And I don't feel safe anymore, oh what a mess
I wonder who's watching me now?
Who?
The IRS?
I always feel like somebody's watching me
--rockwell, "Somebody's Watching Me"