NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls | Politics and Law - CNET News

NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls | Politics and Law - CNET News: "If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required"

"the NSA records the phone calls of 500,000 to 1 million people who are on its so-called target list, and perhaps even more"

"the agency may vacuum up everything it can domestically -- on the theory that indiscriminate data acquisition was not intended to "target" a specific American citizen."