http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/07/politics/nsa-data-mining/index.ht
(CNN) -- Sweeping up Americans' telephone records and monitoring Internet
activity from overseas are "modest encroachments on privacy" that can help U
.S. intelligence analysts disrupt terror activity, President Barack Obama
said Friday.
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," he reassured Americans
worried about the prospect of government agents listening in on private
conversations.