Government Spying on Everybody

In a free and open society you take for granted that if you've done nothing wrong, the government will leave you alone.  Today in a story in The Guardian it was revealed that the NSA has a record of every phone call made through Verizon's network, and it's a certainty the other carriers are feeding the NSA too.  Ron Wyden has been warning about the existence of such a program, but he could not be specific because he would be revealing "Top Secret" information.  He said:

In a Senate floor speech in December, Wyden hinted at classified information he had received but could not share due to Senate rules that indicated the law “on Americans’ privacy has been real, and it is not hypothetical.”
“When the public finds out that these secret interpretations are so dramatically different than what the public law says, I think there’s going to be extraordinary anger in the country,” he told the Huffington Post the following month.

Well, I think he's right about the extraordinary anger part, but he did vote for the bill that authorized this action, as did most of his colleagues in congress in a huge betrayal of our civil liberties.  So my note to Congress is "You broke it, now you fix it".  The ACLU had this to say.

"Now that this unconstitutional surveillance effort has been revealed, the government should end it and disclose its full scope, and Congress should initiate a full investigation," said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "This disclosure also highlights the growing gap between the public’s and the government’s understandings of the many sweeping surveillance authorities enacted by Congress. Since 9/11, the government has increasingly classified and concealed not just facts, but the law itself. Such extreme secrecy is inconsistent with our democratic values of open government and accountability."

Be sure to let your representative in Congress know what you think about this.