So the NSA listens to our phone calls, checks our emails, and lots of other nasty type stuff. All without a warrant mind you. Now it seems they are collecting vast amounts of data just to “create patterns” or some such bull shit. Check out the full story here. It also looks like large ISP and phone companies are helping the government “big brother” all of us. I wonder when we can get a list of people who are helping to eaves drop on us, so we can stop using them as service providers. Personally I think a massive uprise of angry customers may do more to help stop this than anything else.

The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system’s main arteries, they said.

As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.