"Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?"

"This week, CNN interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone calls between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his wife. Clemente stated that the FBI had ways of accessing those calls, and that all calls are recorded."

Not just can the government start recording a particular suspect's calls. The old calls, from before they noticed this guy, are already recorded, and so are yours and mine. That's what Clemente says, anyway.

Do you believe this?
	Yes. The government would go to all this effort in a terrifying plan to watch and control everyone.
	Yes. They'd do it because it's possible and in some ways easier, almost lazy.
	No. It would take way too much effort and storage.
	No. It's so intrusive and outrageous, they wouldn't dare do this in America.
	Maybe. Everything above sounds vaguely plausible.
	I don't know. I refuse to try to understand this problem.
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