The Bush says:

"We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans"

General Hayden, Mr. Squinty's nominee for head of the CIA says:

I have met personally with prominent corporate executive officers. (One senior executive confided that the data management needs we outlined to him were larger than any he had previously seen). [...] And last week we cemented a deal with another corporate giant to jointly develop a system to mine data that helps us learn about our targets.

So, not mining data, but devloping a system to mine the data. And, not going to mine the data we wouldn't know about if it weren't leaked.

I'm waiting for The Cigarette Smoking Man to come out of the shadows any moment.