Yet Another NSA Program Raises Questions About Obama's Statements to Charlie Rose

[sabrina 1]

43. This makes no sense to me:

"Then, what the NSA can do is it can query that database to see did this number pop up?

Why do they need a data base of people's phone #s to do this? Why can't they just use the telephone book? People can do reverse searches with phone numbers. What is meant by 'to see if the number pops up?' Of course it will pop up. People don't get phones for decoration purposes, they USE them.

And before anyone says 'but they can see who was called, at what times etc'. A number is useless without knowing who owns it. So presumably if they have a number they will want to identify the person. They can do that by using the reverse phone number system, then they can get a warrant to look at that person's phone records and they will have all the info on who and when and what time and where those calls were made.

This program, imo, is NOT to catch terrorists, and if this is how they really think they can do that, then they are just plain stupid. It is for something else. And I suspect it has something to do with MONEY.