in 2006, usa today reported that the NSA was vacuuming up
the call data of tens of millions of americans
the order does not give the NSA permission to eavesdrop on
phone calls, it does give them access to so-called meta-data
meta-data is not mega-data, it's data about data
and sometimes it's data about mega-data that's analyzed
this means the NSA has a massive database of mega-data
phone numbers and their associated serial numbers
and data on which other phones it contacts and for how long
and potentially the geographic location of that phone
experts warn that meta-data allows government intelligence
analysts to 'build detailed picture of individuals’ lives'
so what happens when they build this picture of your wife
and what if your wife is named michelle and you live in a
great, big white house
it seems that the president and the white house did not
order these phone calls to be monitored after all
on the contrary, the president learned about this spying
not from the NSA or the edward snowden case
he learned about it when his staff told him about
certain calls that michelle obama has been making
seems that while in hawaii, the president's wife meet with
yes, edward snowden, several times, at the beach
but all mr. obama was told was that michelle was making
calls to hawaii and they weren't to their family or friends
and now we find that michelle is planning a trip to ecuador
michelle, you've got some explainin' to do...
