The government knows who you call. They know who calls you. They get records from your phone company. They got records on everybody!
Paper Reports NSA Collecting Phone Records
And who knows why, its not like they have enough people to go through every American's phone records. Maybe its just a dumb power trip. Can you imagine the eyes that must have been rolling when that order was given?
-'Get records on every single phone call made in the country!'
-'Uh... yeah.'
These guys are brilliant.