He can hear you loud and clear ....

2000:
"NSA director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden testifies before the House intelligence committee. He says media reports that the NSA collects all electronic communications, spies on U.S. citizens and provides intelligence information to U.S. companies are "false or misleading." However, Hayden and CIA director George Tenet, who also testifies, neither confirm nor deny the existence of the Echelon system."

When Hyden is given the job of top spy Head of the CIA on Monday all US secret services will be headed by military officers.... and as we now know via AT&T that system is more extensive than we knew in 2000.