So is the govt recording lawful citizens phone calls without a warrant?

[longship]

17. It's a matter of practicality.

Have you any idea how many phone calls are made in the USA in one day? What purpose would there be to record them all.

Nota bene: this isn't meta-data that can be mined by a computer search algorithm. This is audio. A bit more difficult to handle.

But of course, the NSA is magic and they can do anything. Maybe they have millions of out-sourced employees to listen to all those recorded calls, or maybe their employees study at Hogwarts.


Those claiming that the NSA is recording our phone calls have a steep climb ahead of them to demonstrate that this is even possible let alone presenting documentation that it is.

If you have a well sourced document that this is happening, I will consider it. Otherwise all you have is paranoia, or possibly a Hogwarts story.

I despise this NSA stuff, but the last thing we should do is to start making shit up. It doesn't help us at all to do that.

So let's agree to check sources carefully and not make shit up.

Nobody is recording all our phone calls. It just isn't technically possible and even if it were, no organization would have the resources to handle all of that data. There's just too damned much of it.