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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.

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]

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

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

remember that thing i said

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

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."

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

and will still vote to renew it next time

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

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