J.Edgar Hoover's ultimate fantasy having the entire country wired so as to be conveniently monitored with the goal of collecting black-mail material on everybody so nobody dare oppose BIG BROTHER, and as we all know BIG BROTHER is watching because he is a Voyeur!
do you even know who Cindy Sheehan is? there is a certain political strata were alleged dissidents ( free radicals .... etc.... ) live and if the establishment feels threatened by any of that lot, taking action is imperative.
Reminds me of the scene in the Simpsons movie - When the FBI finally intercept a phone call they really needed hear lol
moot point because a machine passed the Turing test. as a super improved version of "Eliza" the software to parse out certain things has gotten VERY sophisticated and so there really isn't such a need for massive human intervention, just have the "bot" do it.