Frank, Frank, Frank. How could you not have known? Echelon was developed to cull information to get Bubba dates or blackmail his 'dates' into shutting up!

Oh by the way, with the probable democratic front runner being Hillary, the NSA is making plans to resurrect the hitherto super-secrect 'Bubba' branch of the Echelon program. Y'know, just incase the 'ol boy makes it back into the Whitehouse and all. Afterall, boys will be boys!