The NSA has gone too far...

We all recall that the existence of an NSA eavesdropping program launched after the September 11 attacks was revealed in December and created quite a nationwide stir among the Senate and Congress. Defending their controversial program at the time, the Bush administration said it had aimed to uncover links between international terrorists and their domestic collaborators and only targeted communications between a person inside the United States and a person overseas. At that point in time people tended to fall into a “Yes sir, what’s good for the country is good for us” line of agreement.

It is very disheartening to discover that the entire conversations of tens of millions of Americans were compiled by NSA through monitoring - AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. The source of this latest information USA Today stated, “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,"

The fact the NSA created the database using entire conversations is what boggles my mind and sets the hair on the back of my neck on end. By now any computer literate person in America is well aware that instead of a total call monitoring and database compilation system a simple data mining program could have been constructed monitoring the calls, searching for key words, i.e. bomb, explosives, etc. any hits it incurred then tabulated into a database

This latest report may indeed be the culprit that provides the proverbial straw breaking the camels back once the public realizes the full picture of what their government has done in the name of national security. This is action not only violates citizens rights, it stomps all over every one of them and takes it foot and grinds it into the dirt.