It just dawned on me.....Greenwald got the media to bite on a story from 2006
NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
Updated 5/11/2006 10:38 AM ET
By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY
Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to become the director of the CIA, headed the NSA from March 1999 to April 2005. In that post, Hayden would have overseen the agency's domestic phone record collection program.
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.
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It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.
For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others.
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way, way, way more:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
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The GeeGees who always sing and dance to Greenwald's tune - no matter how freakin' old it is.
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There is no surprise here. Senator Obama campaigned against what the NSA was doing back in 2008:
"My job this morning is to be so persuasive...that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack," he told a crowd of about 300 Ivy Leaguers--and, by the looks of it, a handful of locals who managed to gain access to what was supposed to be a students-only event.
For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and "wiretaps without warrants," he said. (He was referring to the lingering legal fallout over reports that the National Security Agency scooped up Americans' phone and Internet activities without court orders, ostensibly to monitor terrorist plots, in the years after the September 11 attacks.)
It's hardly a new stance for Obama, who has made similar statements in previous campaign speeches, but mention of the issue in a stump speech, alongside more frequently discussed topics like Iraq and education, may give some clue to his priorities.
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- The question is, what happened to the promise to end the "wiretaps without warrants" era of Bush/Cheney? ...pick. He's talking about both. And any FISA warrant might as well be written on the f%@king wind since you can't see it, taste it or smell it unless you have clearance. Secret Courts do not meet Constitutional muster in my world.
- I can't speak for anyone else.....
[font size=3]The criminal NSA eavesdropping program[/font]
The court's ruling yesterday was a scathing repudiation of the Obama DOJ's Bush-copying tactics
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/2010/04/01/nsa_4/
What he's been talking about is common knowledge and a decent Google search will bear this out. As I stated above, the technical points matter little now. They're getting all the info on everyone and have been for sometime.
Your tax dollars at-work:
By James Bamford | 03.15.12 | 7:24 PM
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
And swiftboaters have to eat too, don't they? 
April 2013 is, last time I checked, a lot more recent than 2006 (and the compliance of pretty much every major social network and email provider is also news).
Greenwald says what he thinks. And whether he's praising him or criticizing him he's thoughtful about it.
Unlike people that never say anything themselves, they just shoot snarky one-liners or post 
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/17-7
Numerous commentators are objecting to the idea that Barack Obama deserves credit for his release of the OLC torture memos yesterday in light of his accompanying pledge that CIA officials relying in good faith on those memos won't be prosecuted. Chris Floyd is one who articulates that objection quite well and, as is always true for Chris, his criticisms are well worth reading. Many others -- including Keith Olbermann, Jonathan Turley, John Dean and Bruce Fein -- yesterday lambasted Obama for his anti-prosecution stance. Since I gave substantial credit to Obama yesterday for the release of the memos and believe even more so today that he deserves it (despite finding the anti-prosecution case as corrupted and morally bankrupt as ever), I want to return to the issue of Obama's actions.
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Beyond those generalities, I think the significance of Obama's decision to release those memos -- and the political courage it took -- shouldn't be minimized. There is no question that many key factions in the "intelligence community" were vehemently opposed to release of those memos. I have no doubt that reports that they waged a "war" to prevent release of these memos were absolutely true. The disgusting comments of former CIA Director Mike Hayden on MSNBC yesterday -- where he made clear that he simply does not believe in the right of citizens to know what their government does and that government crimes should be kept hidden-- is clearly what Obama was hearing from many powerful circles. That twisted anti-democratic mentality is the one that predominates in our political class.
