Geez, if you think that your communications are private you're living in a dream world! Use a cell phone and it can be monitored as easily as the radio link it actually is. Use a landline and it can be monitored from an airplane 30,000 feet up -- my brother did this for the USAF when he flew over Vietnam during the Late Unpleasantness there. Use the Internet and it can be interrupted anywhere along the line. A "bionic ear" type listening device can "hear" you a couple hundred meters away -- and a laser can record the vibrations your voice creates in the window glass and these can be translated back into speech.

You live with it.

Whether or not the Prez was right to authorize such is another story entirely....