NSA phone monitoring: Call your bookie recently?

Having trouble flying? Maybe you called your brother-in-law, the bookie, one time too often. One of his regular callers calls a known bad guy. Now you're on a watchlist too.

Or maybe you just dialed a really bad wrong number ...

Last January paranoid traitors like me figured the NSA wasn't exactly blindly wiretapping US phone calls, they were instead studying the call patterns to decide who to target. Five months later, this is now common knowledge:

The NSA has assembled a gigantic database of telephone calls in the United States, with the help of all of the major telecommunications providers (except Qwest). The database is not of voice recordings, but of calls made. It constitutes data on a huge network of ties between people who call each other...

It's not really that hard to figure out what this administration is up to. If they were at all competent they'd be even scarier.

BTW, good luck getting off that watchlist ...