re: Greenwald - Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On

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Excellent article. Thanks.

Personally, I am concerned about the entire FISA oversight process. Probably the best comment in the article;

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Indeed, the government’s ability to monitor such high-profile Muslim-Americans—with or without warrants—suggests that the most alarming and invasive aspects of the NSA’s surveillance occur not because the agency breaks the law, but because it is able to exploit the law’s permissive contours. “The scandal is what Congress has made legal,” says Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU deputy legal director. “The claim that the intelligence agencies are complying with the laws is just a distraction from more urgent questions relating to the breadth of the laws themselves.”

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This is a tool in the hands of any President. And it has to have the appropriate oversight. Without the warrant or the finding of the FISA court, we have no way of knowing why they were monitored, or if they should have been.