Doubleplusungood

Let's take stock of where we are, shall we?

CIA has secret torture prisons, which ABC reporters reveal

New York Times reports that NSA taps phones of thousands of "terrorists" inside the US, but doesn't go to secret court to get permission because means of determining terrorist status not even kosher for secret court

USA Today breaks story of NSA program to aggregate records of every call made in the US, parsing the data for connections that might yield clues to terrorists; the paper instantly becomes about 1000 times more respected

Hmm. Scary-ass overreaching of executive authority, aimed ostensibly at terrorists. What could be next?

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation.

Oh.

Crap.