they spell “terrorist” R-E-P-O-R-T-E-R:

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

“It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.

ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

I can read between the lines here: They were, and that was much of the actual point. Looking at phone records is a hit-or-miss way of analyzing terror network ties, but it’s a great way of finding out who’s blowing the whistle when the US government does something it’s not supposed to.

BTW: If you want a laugh and/or a reminder of just how crazy the few people are that still buy this adminstration’s BS, take a look at the comments on their entry. Wherever there are people that honestly think ABC News is “communist scum”, “seditionist”, and “against the USA”, I hope to never to be there for so much as a speeding ticket.

***Updated 051506 @ 11:15 PM EST***

The records ABC is referring to have been revealed to have come not from the NSA program but from the FBI using a “national Security Letter”. Different case — and even worse. NSLs are written by the feds themselves, unlike a warrant, & by law a phone company that gets one can neither refuse to provide records nor admit to the parties involved that they’ve been handed over.

“National Security Letter”. Maybe it’s just me being looney, but I don’t see how it threatens national security to reveal that the US uses torture. I’d think if one were to take their mind to that dark area where anything goes & anything works they’d want The Black Hats to know they’re going to be tortured should they ever be caught, so as to let ‘em know “we mean business” or whatever the cliche is today. If we’re to assume the hawks are correct & there’s gains from it, then why not just say straight out “we will torture you”?

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