Alright, I might as well comment like everyone else on the USA Today articled entitled NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls. The gist of the article is that regardless of FISA laws, which requires a court order and due cause, the NSA (National Security Agency) and good ol' Bushy has demanded and he has been given (by every phone company but Qwest. Yeah Qwest!) all the records of the telephone calls we have made. I was listening to NPR today. They're calling it "social network analysis." The idea is that we each create a unique web of phone calls, so any sudden change in our web or connection from our web to a suspected terrorist web may be detected. Moreover, our unique web may be identified despite location/number changes. It is skeptical and creepy to say the least. Can I just say that it gives me the heebie jeebies? Suddenly all of my grandmother's stories of Nazi Germany come rushing into my mind. I know, you're thinking I am paranoid, but honestly after everything shady and underhanded this admininstration has done (do we remember Padilla, the nucs in Iraq, the torture), let's just say I don't want to trust in their good will, especially when this was done outside illegally. And all this auhtorization and classification bullshit is driving me nuts! What happened to the separation of power? I bet in thirty years we're going to look back and think, "How the hell did that happen?" (if we aren't already).