Both More and Less Terrifying Than It Sounds

In a piece that liberals are sure to jump on faster than President Clinton jumps on french fries, USA Today is printing a story today about the NSA receiving phone records from various phone companies.

It is more terrifying because it is, indeed, far too much like Big Brother for the government to be keeping track of every call we make. This is absolutely not within the Constitutional framework of our country.

However, it is much less terrifying than the liberals will make it out to be because of what is actually being recorded:

"The program does not involve listening to or taping the calls. Instead it documents who talks to whom in personal and business calls, whether local or long distance, by tracking which numbers are called."

So in other words, what the liberals have been claiming for the past couple of months is not true, and will still not be true. The government is not listening in on every call we make. And there is a huge difference between keeping a record that calls are made, and actually listening in to those calls. I support neither in this case, but again, this is not as big as the talking heads will make it out to be. Still, it reminds us that we cannot let ourselves be too comfortable with letting our elected officials on too long a leash.