Yes, it's come to that.
President Bush insisted Tuesday that the United States does not listen in on domestic telephone conversations among ordinary Americans.... "We do not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval," Bush said.Is it "listening" if Bush is saving a recording of every single phone call you make in America? No.
Is it "listening" if Bush has a machine automatically transcribing every phone conversation you have into text that is then saved in a big government computer? No.
Is it "listening" if Bush has a computer program sifting through every single phone conversation you have to look for "key words"? No, because machines don't "listen," they don't have ears.
Is it "listening" if Bush is keeping a file on every single American citizen listing every single person they ever speak to by phone? No.
And oh yeah, does it mean Bush isn't "listening" to our calls just because he says he isn't?
No.
