CNN's Miles O'Brien spoke Thursday with Lesley Cauley, the USA Today reporter who broke the story.

O'BRIEN: First of all, this does not imply the NSA is listening to domestic phone calls you or I would make, correct?

CAULEY: That is correct, yes.

O'BRIEN: OK. So what exactly -- what kind of information are they gathering?

CAULEY: They are collecting what is known as call detail records. And this is simply the listing of the actual numbers dialed. Incoming and outgoing are being tracked. But, again, we're talking purely the calls being dialed. That does not include your name, street address, Social Security number, information of that sort


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