If you have a credible source that calls are being recorded, I will gladly admit that I was wrong. But I have only seen innuendo from sources which I would hardly call reliable.
Maybe you believe this is happening, but if you consider the sources and, above all, the technical plausibility of what you are suggesting, it frankly comes off as tin foil hat paranoia.
Again, my question is: What would they do with all of it? I'd really love to see what all those NSA analysts do with all the audio from all the phone conversations from USA's teenagers. I'm sure that they would provide a prolific target for international terrorism.
Alas! They are only gobbling up the meta-data. And that's bad enough. You shoot too high, you miss the target. The NSA isn't recording phone calls because it would cost them too much and would provide no value. Plus, it's not even possible, to say nothing about practical.
There is documentation about FISA and the meta-data being vacuumed up by the NSA. Congress has even admitted it. Isn't that enough to get you pissed off? Do you really have to make shit up to be against what is really happening?
Well, maybe not you, but somebody is making shit up. The NSA isn't recording our phone conversations because:
1. It would be technically impractical, possibly beyond technical abilities.
2. It would be extraordinarily expensive.
3. It would just add haystacks to the haystacks where the needle resides.
4. The meta-data provides what they want for much less cost. Plus, it is actually feasible. And it has been documented that the NSA is actually doing this.
Please don't shoot for Mars when we have the Moon in our sights.
The NSA is not recording phone calls because they don't have to. How can people not get this?
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