The NSA is collecting phone records of EVERY Verizon customer... oh and they're not telling you...

NSA is collecting the phone records of MILLIONS of Verizon customers daily under top secret order issued in April and it lasts into July

By MEGHAN KENEALLY

The National Security Agency is collecting telephone records for millions of Americans without informing the individuals involved. The records are being obtained through Verizon because they were issued a court order by the NSA in April under unclear circumstances.The Guardian obtained a copy of the order that forces the phone company to hand over records of phone calls for all of its customers on a 'ongoing, daily basis' without giving specific parameters. Because of the lack of distinction, it means that the phone records are not just being collected for suspected terrorists, but seemingly at random within the phone network.

The only restriction set forth in the order seems to be the duration of the exchange. It was approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and it denoted that it would only hold water until July 19, so just shy of three months. This news comes just as the Obama administration is in the process of explaining itself for secretly subpeoenaing the phone records of journalists at the Associated Press and Fox News without notifying either organization. That case was tied to a national security leak, and caused uproar from which the Department of Justice is still reeling. In this latest instance of unexplained government spying, the government order gives them records of all calls made from certain numbers, and lists what phone numbers they called and how long the call lasted.

The data does not include recordings of the conversation or a transcription of those calls. In this latest instance of unexplained government spying, the government order gives them records of all calls made from certain numbers, and lists what phone numbers they called and how long the call lasted. The data does not include recordings of the conversation or a transcription of those calls. The Guardian reports that the copy of the order shows that the court ordered Verizon to give the NSA 'all call detail records or 'telephony metadata' created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad'. These records must 'continue production on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this order'.

The secret nature of the order means that Verizon was forbidden to disclose the nature of the order and the existence of the order itself.

As such, there is no way of knowing whether similar orders have been put upon other telephone carriers, making the web of possible victims unlimited.