All Your Phone Are Belong To Us

Intelligence agencies scoop up everything they can, including all domestic phone calls.  While this activity is illegal, they claim the recordings are not accessed.  Of course the recordings are accessed.  That is the purpose of making the recordings.  The government wants to know everything all of the time.  Who is the enemy?


The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy.

On Wednesday night, Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between the two. He quite clearly insisted that they could:

BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at this point. It's not a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There's no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them?

CLEMENTE: "No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out.

The FBI won't want to present it in court, because it is illegal and unconstitutional to do what they are doing.