12 May 2006 - phone records

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reporter: USA Today reports that the government is collecting records of most of the phone calls made in the nation.
Bush: We are not trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans.
reporter: Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing?
Bush: You are all guilty. If you were innocent, you’d be using secure U.S. Government phones.
reporter: Now we’re getting somewhere!
Bush: The privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected.
reporter: Which word are you redefining here? “Privacy”? “ordinary”?
Bush: Careful, or I’ll tell your wife who you’ve been calling. Anyway, my administration does not leak information.

clue:

I used quotes from Bush’s actual speech on the topic.

take oh take this clue away

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