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NSA has domestic phone call database
(MSNBC News Services, May 11, 2006)
The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. borders...In an effort to build a database of every call made within the country, the agency in charge (NSA) of a domestic spying program has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, USA Today reported on Thursday. It said the National Security Agency has been building up the database using records provided by three major phone companies - AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. - but that the program "does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations." Instead it documents who talks to whom in personal and business calls, whether local or long distance, by tracking which numbers are called, the newspaper said. Although customers' names and addresses are not being handed over," the phone numbers the NSA collects can easily be cross-checked with other databases to obtain that information," it said. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and was nominated by Bush on Monday as director of the CIA, would have overseen the call-tracking program, the paper said.
*****Comment*****Remember TIA (Total Information Awareness)? You didn't think they were going to give up on this just because the Congress said "NO!" Did you?*****

posted by A Curmudgeon 7:44 AM