Do you like being wiretapped?

The extrajudicial spying may be vastly wider than originally thought or than the president acknowledged 10 days ago, 'The New York Times'? reporting that the National Security Agency has been tapping directly into some of the main arteries of American telecommunications companies in its hunt for suspicious activity, apparently with the approval of those telecommunications companies, but not with the approval of any court.

The agency combing through phone calls and e-mails said to number in the millions, not all of them, obviously, the work of terror suspects. In acknowledging the eavesdropping last week, the president having said that only those suspected of terrorist ties were being monitored.

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for December 27