The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said. Read the rest over at the NY Times website...

Jokes aside, this is pretty worrying, although I suppose it doesn't come as a surprise.  I feel somewhat more comfortable given that I live in Europe but the day will come (or maybe it has already?) when this kind of policy will be commonplace.