METADATA IS MORE INTRUSIVE! REPEAT: METADATA IS MORE INTRUSIVE!

[ProSense]

55. OK,

"You can mock it all you want."

...I will. Maybe we can scale back the more intrusive meta data program and bring back Bush's illegal wiretapping (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022973979)

Clearly, seeing phone data:

Personal phone calls can also reveal sensitive medical information: “You can see a call to a gynecologist, and then a call to an oncologist, and then a call to close family members.”

...is more intrusive than actually listen to each call.

While many details about the program remain secret, officials familiar with it say the N.S.A. eavesdrops without warrants on up to 500 people in the United States at any given time. The list changes as some names are added and others dropped, so the number monitored in this country may have reached into the thousands since the program began, several officials said. Overseas, about 5,000 to 7,000 people suspected of terrorist ties are monitored at one time, according to those officials.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022959557

Absurd.