:: tap tap tap :: Is this thing on?

Apparently, it was. Recently declassified documents strongly suggest that the FBI went a bit beyond mere warrantless wiretapping. Oh yeah. They were also storing what are being called "post-cut-through dialed digits"- a fancy term for numbers you punch in after your call goes through. Things like, oh, your pin number to access voicemail.

So the FBI has been storing your voicemail password. Meaning that if they so chose, they could go into your account and listen to your messages.

Not only that, but the article in Wired also says that the FBI was looking to track people via their cellphones.

As time goes by and more records are released, no doubt we will find even more heinous violations of our civil rights. The capacity to be shocked by these revelations has been greatly diminished these past years. The litany of abuses keeps going on and on and the oath taken by those in office- to uphold and defend the Constitution- has been turned into a sick joke.