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

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In one instance, the NSA used a fake name on a form - "MOHAMMED RAGHEAD." Anyone using that slur should not be deciding shite regarding surveillance under FISA.

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Yeah, I think this is more telling than any of the individual names on the list. When the COINTELPRO documents leaked and you saw FBI agents swapping racist jokes, it didn't exactly lead you to give them the benefit of the doubt about their targeting methods. This should be the same.

The biggest reason conservatives should care, though, is this line from the article:

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The spreadsheet shows 7,485 email addresses listed as monitored between 2002 and 2008.

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The copy of the list Snowden had dated from the Bush administration. It reveals nothing about the Obama administration's NSA policies except the scope of the power he inherited. And we know he is willing to expand that because of his re-opening of the back door search loophole.

Now, ask yourself how confident you are about Obama not politicizing the powers of the NSA.