Flutterby™! : NY Times calls the NSA data collection "criminal"

NYTimes: The Criminal NSA:

The government claims that under Section 215 it may seize all of our phone call information now because it might conceivably be relevant to an investigation at some later date, even if there is no particular reason to believe that any but a tiny fraction of the data collected might possibly be suspicious. That is a shockingly flimsy argument — any data might be “relevant” to an investigation eventually, if by “eventually” you mean “sometime before the end of time.” If all data is “relevant,” it makes a mockery of the already shaky concept of relevance.

Dear NSA: You've got a PR problem right now. Frankly, so does the FTC's toothless "Do Not Call" list. If you guys teamed up to provide swift justice against telephone solicitors you could probably swing public opinion back your direction...