The Patriot Act is a joke, but I dont see why people blow it up to be somethign it isnt. Do you people honestly think someone actually listens to the phone call? No they dont, the call is "recorded" by a computer as it searches for key words. If no key words are used then the call is 'deleted' and no one ever hears a thing. Calls that do hit the appropriate key words are then filtered again to get rid of more useless calls. After that then they MIGHT be listened to by a real person. So if your pillow talk is about bin laden, and a nuke weapons cache in Tikrit, then there is a SMALL chance it might be listened to.

Oh and its obvious no one here has been overseas. EVERY phone has a sign on it saying that all conversations are subject to monitoring, just like they are when you make a phone call from your workplace.