The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.

As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24spy.html?emc=eta1

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, the FBI has stumbled on the largest espionage ring ever discovered inside the United States. The U.S. Justice Department is now holding nearly 100 Israeli citizens with direct ties to foreign military, criminal and intelligence services.

The spy ring reportedly includes employees of two Israeli-owned companies that currently perform almost all the official wiretaps for U.S. local, state and federal law enforcement.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/224826.shtml

[ America, whose government is mostly neoconservatives of Jewish and Christian origin, and Israel, a state of fanatical Jews and Christians, are working together to make sure you don't have any bad thoughts. ]