We'll find out who's naughty or nice

You can take Total Information Awareness away from Poindexter, but your cannot take the Poindexter away from the Bushbags:

The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls — without court orders — than the Bush administration has acknowledged, The New York Times reported on its Web site.

The NSA, with help from American telecommunications companies, obtained access to streams of domestic and international communications, said the Times in the report late Friday, citing unidentified current and former government officials...

...Since the Times disclosed the domestic spying program last week, President Bush has stressed that his executive order allowing the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al-Qaida.

But the Times said that NSA technicians have combed through large volumes of phone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might lead to terrorists.

The volume of information harvested from telecommunications data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the paper said, quoting an unnamed official.

So remember, those of you who say "Merry Christmas" are fine; those of you who say "Happy Holidays" are probably alright; "Happy Hannukkah" -- you're okay for now; "Merry Kwanzaa", you're probably being watched.