[CyberAnt]

YOU ARE WRONG - it is not EVERY - it's only those phones where there is a suspected TERRORIST CONNECTION.

NSA cannot be bothered to listen to you calling your Aunt Mable - unless she belongs to a terrorist group!

Grow up!!

[DeaconNoGood]

Mam, perhaps you don't understand signals intelligence. The computers and software programs they use to "filter" voice and electronic communications look for key phrases, keywords, certain dialects, etc., etc.

Because I just tranmitted the words "W88 Thermonuclear Device Active" they will pick up this email transmission.