Bush administration tracks your phone calls (Media Metters)

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.. the administration maintains a massive database of phone calls between you and your mother, your psychiatrist, your doctor, your pharmacist, your baby sitter, your friends and neighbors, and the Home Shopping Network. They know when you order a pizza, they know when you call your bank, and they know when you call that 900 number you thought was your own little secret ..

Editorializing in favor of a Republican Congress exercising oversight over President Bush is like buying a lottery ticket: Sure, it'll be great if it works out -- but you shouldn't get your hopes up.

More than 50 members of Congress have now called for the appointment of a special counsel ..

The only reason to believe the call monitoring is used only to fight terrorism is that the Bush administration says so -- the same administration that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and the same administration that said it was monitoring only international calls of suspected terrorists ..

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605120014

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Eventually, we will probably find out

It had one purpose - spy on political enemies. And there will still be some backwash freepers claiming that this was justified because anyone who opposed Bush is a traitor.

[fooj]

2. Political enemies AND allies alike.

IMO.