THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

Wow. Just wow.

What are the odds that it's one of the neocons who was buddy-buddy with Ahmed Chalabi after he was accused of giving US secrets to the Iranians?

In an odd way I'm sort of glad. Maybe if some of the egomaniacs in congress see warrant-less wiretapping as a personal issue they'll actually do something about it.

So it's only a problem when it happens to you? What a load of crap.

I can't believe that anyone is surprised by this. The NSA's default position is to wiretap everybody all of the time, including phone calls and emails. They monitor everything, and save whatever their filters catch. I believe that if they don't save it, they don't consider it wiretapping at all.

I think we can safely assume it was a liberal Democrat. After all, Darth Cheney was personally running the security apparatus of the US of A during this time.

Leahy? Pelosi?

We'll probably never find out, but you can be sure if this had happened during a Dem administration, the ReThuglicans would have leaked it ASAP under the personal direction of Darth Cheney.

maybe Rohrbacher was secretly hanging with the taliban. again.

This might actually get some action: if you recall the shitstorm that both parties' members of congress put up over the FBI taking documents from LA congressperson Jefferson.

Congress seems to take their rights seriously, at least in so far as it impacts their ability to defend themselves in a criminal investigation.

Go figure.

I'd say it's an odds-on bet that the target is Kieth Ellison (MN-05). He's made high-profile visits to Qatar, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and is the only Muslim in congress.

Also, I do hope that the Obama administration is taking care to ensure that the erstwhile fourth branch of government doesn't still have back channel access to the machinery of the three letter agencies. If not I predict that Eliot Spitzer's last name will come back into common parlance, as a verb.

I am less than pleased with Obama's legislative and presidential stances on surveillance, but that photograph of the president for an article on this particular Bush administration 05-06 surveillance abuse makes little sense.

I suspect a huge story here. But why is there a problem only when it is a Congressman who is being targeted? This garbage has been and is ongoing. Just a block from me, on Third Avenue in downtown Seattle, the FBI or "whomever" has offices directly next to a major telephone switching facility. A simple auger drill job and one could get a cable through the wall and into the switching equipment. Gee, do you think they did that? A telephone company employee I encountered on the sidewalk one day pretty much admitted to me that there was spying occurring there in response to my verbal remarks. And people are freaking about "sexting"? What a farce we are living. Prevent the development of an authoritarian state? Too late: it's already here and it isn't going away and nobody is safe, including are democratically elected representative. Just keep the sheep worrying about the celebrity of the week. That's the ticket!

"Pretty shocking" - ??? Cheap thrills for the naive - or is it delusion.

The article is hardly an example of clarity, but the NSA wasn't set up to follow the law.

This investigation is the reason Pres. Obama didn't need to worry about Libeirman, McCain and Gramm.

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http://www.davidduke.com/general/war-monger-lord-rothschild-backs-john-mccain_3662.html
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