Someone may be listening!

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ABC Investigative reporter Brian Ross tells us that the US Government is listening in to phone conversations to and from the Middle East. Government workers who are being asked to transcribe personal phone calls are uneasy. When these workers complained that they felt uneasy recording these personal phone calls, they were told to do it anyway that they were "under orders." In one case, an officer's phone sex call was recorded and shared. Click here to hear more.

We also talked with ABC's Business Editor, Charles Herman, about the morning futures' numbers, which were up because of good news from IBM as well as some positive unemployment numbers. He also had a thought about the comment by Jim Cramer that we should get out of the stock market. Click here to hear more.