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Yes, according to this PBS transcript. Also says NSA were spying word for word US citizens phone conversations.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/july-dec13/whistleblowers_08-01.html
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Nobody.
Obama needs to put a stop to this. Now!
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)charge of this shit? He has very little power over our own MIC.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)He can order Federal Marshalls in tomorrow to shut it down while DoJ conducts an investigation.
And Congress can cut off funding immediately.
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)in 2004 (per Russell Tice) and now have got him by the short hairs. They're probably blackmailing him as I write.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)No boxes in his garage.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)and it's time to stop tip-toeing around the reality.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Its quite evident there is a constitutional crisis. Its source and depth we don't know.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)That is one of the layers in the crisis
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)and we have let it happen before our very eyes!
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)former NSA employees that dated pole dancers
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)struggle4progress
(118,237 posts)from SCOTUS in July 2005 and Alito was nominated in October 2005. From the transcript:
RUSSELL TICE: This was in 2002-2003 time frame. The NSA were targeting individuals. In that case, they were judges like the Supreme Court. I held in my hand Judge Alito's targeting information for his phones and his staff and his family.
Tice seems to believe Alito was on SCOTUS in 2002-2003. He wasn't