said by SparkChaser:said by FF4m3 :said by 19579823:Nothing new.......This has been going on for years!
Exactly true.
But at least now some (ex)officials are publicly coming clean about it.
Has anyone tried to compute the amount of data that would be required to record everything everyone in the US says, emails, posts, etc. I didn't think so.
I don't believe they have been or are recording everything (it would be a daunting task as you suggest). What I do believe is that the NSA and others are running all this communication through filters trying to hit on words or phrases that, to them, sets of an alarm, ala The Bourne Ultimatum. Be that as it may, to me it is no less objectionable or un-constitutional.