You have got to be kidding me. They are trying to collect records of every phone call made in the United States, just in the hope of maybe data mining it into finding a terrorist?
I’m not sure that innocent until proven guilty is applicable anymore.
This is almost as scary as the proposed legislation that would require ISP’s to track every email you send, and every web site you visit, except that it is apparently already happening.
A lot of these things are done in the guise of helping "the children". Well what good will it be doing if "the children" end up growing up in a police state?
Perhaps we’re all terrorists now… Your papers please…
Perhaps they’re trying to push IP telephony adoption…
Easy there big guy. :)Collecting "external" data on domestic phone calls
(not "internals," the actual content of
the communication) for the purpose of "social network
analysis" hardly makes this a police state. As the article points out, this has been done many times before. The only difference this time is the scale. The article strikes me as just another MSM swipe at the Bush administration (and our country’s security), probably timed to impact the confirmation hearings for Gen. Hayden. Here’s a roundup of other pespectives:http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005177.htm