Actually the domestic program that started some time ago was based on a database called FIRSTFRUITS - it was originally developed by an outside contractor in Florida, but that will be revealed in the next few weeks. It was renamed in 2004 or early 2005 after some journalists caught on to the codename, but it still exists and is administered by Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC), a component of the National Intelligence Council. The reported chairman of the group is Dr. Larry Gershwin, the CIA's adviser on science and technology matters - his codename was Curveball in the CIA a few years ago.
There are publicly available publications by many members of the groups involved from the last 3 years - primarily the Studies in Intelligence trade mag - which features articles by many of the members of the FDDC and can be found with a few quick searches out there
The important part of all of this is not that all of this has been going on - its the medias realization that not only has it been going on (and theyre all up in arms about it now) but that they were some of the targets - its all been public since 6 years ago if anyone took the time to look - even when they went to the FISA court to try to get warrants a few years back and were denied because of the domestic angle - "and then After the Justice Department appealed the FISC decision, the FISA Review court met for the first time in its history. The three-member review court, composed of Ralph Guy of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Edward Leavy of the 9th Circuit, and Laurence Silberman [of the Robb-Silberman Commission on 911 "intelligence failures"] of the D.C. Circuit, overturned the FISC decision on the Bush administration's wiretap requests" - which gave these telcos and everyone else free reign to do what ever they felt was necessary
Ya'll need to get out more and stop listening to MSM - they are like 5 years behind the real stuff
