Going, Going, Gone?

In an article entitled "Bush May Have Crossed the Line by Tracking Every US Phone Call" in today's Times, it was revealed that

[Bush's] Administration has covertly collected domestic phone records of tens of millions of citizens.

According to the [USA today] newspaper report, the NSA used data secretly handed over by the country’s three largest phone companies — AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth — to try to build a database of every call made within the US — the largest database assembled anywhere in the world, one source said.

The programme is significantly different from — and potentially far more damaging politically than the secret, warrantless wiretapping programme revealed in December.

Hopefully the system's not so broken that this won't be used to boot him out of office.