And if they didn’t like what they heard when they were tapping you?

Matt Yglesias has a few comments on the NSA’s phone tapping everything and everybody a la Big Brother. If you think the Bush Administration wouldn’t misuse such information just remember how his Secretary of Housing boasted at a conference that he’d withdrawn the government contract from a contractor critical of the President.

“Last month, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson told a minority business group in Texas that he had retracted a HUD contract after learning it had been awarded to a qualified vendor who happened to be critical of the Bush administration.”