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ABC News: Government Monitoring About 200 Million Americans' Calls

"Chances are that your cell phone calls, as well as your home phone calls, have been tracked," said Leslie Cauley, the reporter who broke the story. She said there was a "high likelihood" that this information was being passed on to the FBI and CIA.

Bush said any intelligence activities specifically target terrorists. "Our intelligence activities strictly target al Qaeda and their known affiliates," Bush said. "We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans."

The paper reports that three of the nation's largest phone companies — AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth — have been turning over detailed call histories of all their customers since Sept. 11, 2001, to help the NSA compile what it hopes will be "the largest database ever assembled in the world."

About 200 million people have had their call records monitored, Cauley said. This means the NSA keeps track of the outgoing and incoming calls, but not the callers' Social Security numbers or addresses.

Whew! I'm so glad that they're not tracking my Social Securtiy number as well as my phone usage! What a relief! This government wouldn't do anything to me, they've been so up front about all of the other things they have done in the interest of National Security so far.... Oh wait.......


BTW isn't 200million people just about all of the people in the US with phones? I mean there are like 265million people in the US as a whole and that includes infants and children under the afe that they could operate a telephone. Do you think those conservatives will be more or less apt to vote for this administration now?