Interesting article are all US calls being recorded?

[Viscur]

I have no doubt that they have the ability to record the information. Going through the information in a timely fashion and alerting the appropriate portions of the intelligence agency is another thing altogether.

[peet]

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-sec...-control/print/

QUOTE Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications. The NSA sorts a fraction of those into 70 separate databases.[/quote]

[MonAG]

No wonder hard disks haven't dropped their prices much.

[peet]

FBI Documents Suggest Feds Read Emails Without a Warrant, and other forms of electronic communication too. Legal Loophole older communication than 180 days?

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security...without-warrant

[NightRychune]

remember that thing i said

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactiv...ata-court-order

[germloucks]

Some headlines broke today about NSA wiretapping and Verizon complicity, but the government was like "hey we fully briefed the senate on this 7 years ago."

[NightRychune]

yeah

and a large number of GOP senators were in favor of it in 2006, and also when FISA was up for renewal in 2008, but now they're offended and disgusted by it

[Broodwich]

and will still vote to renew it next time

[NightRychune]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...97_story_1.html

and, as before when i first read about this years ago, i am utterly disgusted