Excerpts; link below; my emphasis.
"The agency in charge of a domestic spying program has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States, USA Today reported on Thursday."
"But USA Today said that calls originating and terminating within the United States have not escaped the NSA’s attention. “It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world,” the paper quoted one source as saying. The agency’s goal is “to create a database of every call ever made” within U.S. borders, it said the source added.
The NSA has “access to records of billions of domestic calls,” USA Today said. Although customers’ names and addresses are not being handed over, “the phone numbers the NSA collects can easily be cross-checked with other databases to obtain that information,” it said.
And the guy who set it up is nominated to run the CIA.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12734870/