Not surprised.

| spurgeonryan said:
According to leaked documents obtained by The Washington Post, the NSA currently has the capability to record 100 percent of a country's phone calls.Do they know that Barrack Obama watches golden shower porn? In turn an NSA analyst has the ability to playback individual calls from that country within a thirty day rolling window. MYSTIC was launched in 2009 and became fully operational in 2011, according to the documents - which we assume came from Edward Snowden's cache of classified documents that he obtained while working as a contractor for the agency. |

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Well not surprising they are the best at what they do. No way they personally listen, they must use bots that filter out the words and isolate phrases that only potential terrorists would use.
As I said elsewhere, capability rarely translates into reality. That's true for anything IT. No one will ever even get close to doing something like this because it is absolutely not feasible. They are barely now keeping up with the data flow.
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| vivster said: As I said elsewhere, capability rarely translates into reality. That's true for anything IT. No one will ever even get close to doing something like this because it is absolutely not feasible. They are barely now keeping up with the data flow. |
but the article says they've actually done it before. With a country the Wasington Post won't mention at the government's request.
Which I think would have to either be Libya or Iran.

| kowenicki said: who didn't know this? every call and every text is monitored and recorded if certain trigger words are picked up. |
The problem comes when this tech gets handed off to other departments, such as the IRS, FBI, and DEA. It's already well-known that it's effectively impossible to lead a single day in a typical life without breaking some laws - usually breaking financial or traffic regulations.
Not that I'm saying that suddenly, people will be getting locked up all over the place. That's never the concern, the concern is when this is used by unscrupulous administrations to take down "political threats".
Think of many of the great revolutionary moments of humanity. How much harder would it have been for these ideas to come to fruition if the FBI (or equivalent) was able the nip it in the bud?
What a lovely police state the US has become. They all should be tried for treason and executed when found guilty just like it used to be.