Tin foil all you want. While your probably right that they (hopefully) don't have either the technology or the warewithall at this point, these programs need to be stopped before they evolve further. The very idea of large scale data mining and phone tapping runs counter to this countries single most important document, the Constitution. Better to stop it now before we come to regret it later. Impossible? Ask someone who lived in Nazi Germany or the Soviet bloc, you may get an earfull.