Well, Duh


This story is resonating about the internets today:

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation.

ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.

One former official was asked to sign a document stating he was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen.

Why would ANYONE be surprised? The most massive database on earth--being compiled courtesy of el presidente arbusto imperial--has little use EXCEPT for things like exacting punitive measures against, say, political opponents/the press, etc.

Even IF international terrorists were dumb enough to use devices like unencrypted email or telephones, it'd be pretty damn easy to foil any efforts on our part to intercept/interpret their communications...one way is to simply speak in a language that we lack fluent, expert speakers of...like Arabic--and, um, I don't think I'm giving terrorist too much credit when I suggest they might, oh, I don't know, speak in code?...

Oh--there is one more potential use for such an otherwise program: maintaining the climate of fearmongering, which makes holding onto power/looting the public treasury SO much easier...sort of like the terror color code, Mark II...another Rovian "sucker born every minute" sleaze tactic, designed for the off-year election coming up.