Bush Knows About You and the 900 Numbers

Well I’ll be. USA Today broke a story and it’s got Congress all up in arms.

The report says the admisintration has been collecting data and tracking Americans’ calling habits in the hopes of identifying Joe Bob from Weehawken as a potential terrorist. Both Dems and Repubs are none too happy with this explanation, citing privacy issues, civil rights violations, and questions of illegality of the entire program.

Senator Specter says he’s going to call up a few phone companies and see if he can get to the bottom of all this. Good luck getting through the voicemail systems Senator. “For information on alleged eavesdropping by your country’s leaders, please press 1…”

But Bush and his NSA buddies swear they’re not listening into anyone’s conversations, at least not without the proper warrants. But they still know who we’re calling and when…

The Times article disclosing the data mining program last December quoted officials in the government and the telecommunications industry who have knowledge of parts of the program as saying the N.S.A. has sought to analyze communications patterns to glean clues from details like who is calling whom, how long a phone call lasts and what time of day it is made, and the origins and destinations of phone calls and e-mail messages.

Yikes. No more 1-900-HOT-DUDE for me.


Suck it America. I’ll listen to ya’ll calls if I won’t to!