'We certainly can find that out'

'Nothing is sacred'

(NaturalNews) There is no such thing as privacy in America anymore, as evidenced by the fact that our own government violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment on a daily basis -, of course.In an inadvertent admission that likely made his former bosses cringe, retired FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente, in a May 1 interview with's Erin Burnett regarding the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings, clearly insisted that the nation's primary law enforcement agency was clearly capable of recordingFrom Glenn Greenwald, of Britain'snewspaper:Greenwald writes that in recent broadcasts U.S. cable news programs like Burnett's "Out Front" have been hyper-focused on the possible involvement of Katherine Russell, 24, wife of the deceased suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in the attack.The reporting has especially concentrated on a "relentless stream of leaks," writes Greenwald, in which anonymous government officials have claimed that the government is examining phone calls between Russell and her deceased husband which took place before and after the bombings, to see if she might have had prior knowledge they were set to take place, or whether she took any part in them.During her May 1 interview, Burnett asked Clemente if the FBI would be able to discover the contents of such calls between the two, and he replied quite clearly that they could:There you have it., which means every telephone conversation between Americans on U.S. soil, and with - or, more importantly, without - a court-ordered warrant,Admissions don't get much more frank, open and blatant as that.In a follow-up interview the next night, Clemente appeared ononce again, but this time with host Carol Costello, who asked him about his remarks. He repeated what he had told Burnett, adding expressly that "all digital communications in the past" are recorded and stored ( http://youtu.be/vt9kRLrmrjc ).The significance of what Clemente was saying, as well as the confident arrogance in which he spoke, was not lost on Greenweld:What Clemente was saying essentially supports what thereported in 2010 - that theintercepts and stores 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communicationsIt's not even possible for human beings to process that kind of data, but it explains one thing: The U.S. intelligence network is vast, expensive and pervasive. And nothing is sacred - not even the Constitution.