Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?

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1. Driftnet wiretaps that cover entire metropolitan areas are conducted by most domestic telcos

The NSA rules of retention were changed years ago so that all this stuff now gets stored away for later retrieval by US IC agencies looking at specific persons of interest. Most US person data collected used to be "minimized" (erased) after a set period of time.

Also, any signal that bounces across the border (even if both parties are domestic) is also subject to capture and retrieval. That also has been the case for years.