I have never stated, not one time, that they listen to every phone call.
And no, I did not backtrack. Sorry but you do not get to make a strawman and then ***** about it.
And you are correct, I did not mispeak. YOU challeneged the idea that such collection was possible because no one had that information. I simply pointed out that if you realize the data can be obtained via a warrant then it MUST BE THE CASE that the data exists.
Then I pointed out that the govenrment is collecting that data on mass without a warrant. That you cannot seem to get that is not my problem, it is OYOUR straw man to deal with.
It matters not what you think I said anyway, I GAVE YOU THE POINT and said that the data collection is happening on mass.
Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration
www.theguardian.com
"The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries."
At least 'nobody is listening to our telephone calls'; many people breathed a sigh of relief since first learning of the surveillance because it’s just metadata, after all. Phew! Wrong. Metadata still leaves a lot to be concerned about. There’s more to privacy than just the sounds of our voices...
www.wired.com
"WE now know that every day, U.S. phone companies quietly send the government a list of who called whom and when -- “telephony metadata” -- for every call made on their networks, because of a secret order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It turns out that this has been going on for seven years (and was even reported by USA Today then); the difference now is that the government -- uncharacteristically for such a secret intelligence operation -- quickly acknowledged the authenticity of the leaked order and the existence of the metadata collection program."
Dumb ass shit?
Care to try again with your 'dumb ass shit' comment.