The Guardian newspaper published a highly classified April U.S. court order that allows the government access to all of Verizon's phone records on a daily basis, for both domestic and international calls.
This is the first tangible evidence of the scope of a domestic surveillance program that has existed for years but has been discussed only in generalities. It proves that, in the name of national security, the government sweeps up the call records of Americans who have no known ties to terrorists or criminals.
This is gross misconduct by the federal government and is a huge infringement on the rights of privacy for American Citizens. The NSA was never meant to spy on Americans and it must stop doing this.