The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Security Agency gathers data on the phone calls of 107.3 million wireless customers of AT&T, 98.9 million wireless customers of Verizon, 31.2 million landline customers of AT&T, 22.2 million landline customers of Verizon, and 55 million customers of Sprint.
The Journal says,
"The practice, which evolved out of warrantless wiretapping programs begun after 2001, is now approved by all three branches of the U.S. government."
How can a program that is secret and unknown to most of the citizenry be considered "approved?" If the details are so secret that only a handful of Members of Congress know about them -- and they are constrained from talking about them -- how can these programs be considered "approved?"
