Surely Slippery Slope for Bu$hCo on NSA Data

Brian Ross and Richard Esposito of ABC's The Blotter reports "Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling" and I'm thinking this might be the tip of the iceberg. Here is the guts of the article,

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources. .... Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.

Kim Zetter via Salon suggests "The NSA is on the line -- all of them : An intelligence expert predicts we'll soon learn that cellphone and Internet companies also cooperated with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on us." 1976 issue indeed as far as "land lines" and "telegrams" so indeed we'd have to think there is much more to the story.

Ought to be an interesting period for historians of the future. I can only hope that true patriots and leadership will be the heroes and not the villians. Those in power will write the history. Peace ... or War!