You may want to think twice the next time you call Aunt Millie for a friendly chat. From CNN.com today (bolding is mine):

"The government has been secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls in an effort to build a database of every call made within the country, it was reported today. President Bush said any domestic intelligence-gathering measures he's approved are lawful. 'We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,' President Bush said."

They've probably been tracking e-mail communications for years, but what's next? Every blog post? Bush has moved well beyond King George. Now it's more like Comrade George. 

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