What you should know about NSA program    • Updated: June 6,
2013 - 9:29 PM  Q: What happened?   Q: How is this different
from the wiretapping that was going on under President George W.
Bush?  A: In 2005, the New York Times revealed that Bush had
signed a secret order allowing the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans
without court approval, a seismic shift in policy for an agency
that had previously been prohibited from spying domestically.
The scope of that program has never been known, but it allowed
the NSA to monitor phone calls and e-mails. While wiretapping
got all the attention, the government was also collecting call
logs from American phone companies as part of that program, a
U.S. official said Thursday. After the wiretapping controversy,
the collection of call records continued, albeit with court
approval. That’s what we’re seeing in the newly released court
document: a judge’s authorization for something that began years
ago with no court oversight.  Q: Why does the government even
want my phone records