Old NSA Story...

I woke up this morning to the story of the NSA having compiled databases of millions of domestic calls. At first I thought that if the government was listening in on ordinary domestic calls this was trouble for the Administration. But then I realized, after listening to several stories on the subject and reading the original story from USA Today, that this was old news - all that's happening is that a study is going on attempting to decipher calling patterns of terrorist cells that may be in the United States. In fact, the story even says that there is no actual monitoring going on, just a statistical analysis of phone number to phone number calling, not even names are used. In fact, I was pretty certain that the original NSA story about the actual monitoring of calls from persons in the US to known terrorists (and vice-versa) made mention of this.

Turns out I was right and this is an old story. It's just the media and the media hounds in Congress trying to get airtime and influence the CIA confirmation hearings. Morons. If this type of thing, which is admittedly thinking outside of the box, wasn't happening I'd be furious. I mean Blockbuster Video probably has more private info than this program does, and sells it to anyone they want. And the IRS certainly does. This is a non-story, only appealing to privacy absolutists.

If something like this could have been used to prevent the 3000 deaths on 9/11, wouldn't you think that it was worth it? Apparently USA Today and the New York Times doesn't.