they didnt have to work at all for that, all the telcos gave them the data, they collect it themselves for internal reasons, only QWest said "No". it'll take them years to index and cross refrence those 10-digit numbers to any useable form, still seems like the government is hopelessly grabbing for anything they can to "fight terrorists", check the news, I'll bet its to take the spotlight away from something that has either happened recently, or is going to happen.
Pull the troops and turn Iraq into a parking lot I say; no one's ever gonna fix that place.

sorry if I offend..