NSA spying on Powell, Alito?

[HooptieWagon]

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]

1. Nobody is safe

Nobody.

Obama needs to put a stop to this. Now!

[kelliekat44]

2. They are spying on Obama too. Remember the phone spying on Clinton? You fools think Obama is in

charge of this shit? He has very little power over our own MIC.

[HooptieWagon]

4. Obama is in charge.

He can order Federal Marshalls in tomorrow to shut it down while DoJ conducts an investigation.
And Congress can cut off funding immediately.

[HardTimes99]

6. He could order Federal Marshalls in tomorrow, except that Cheney's NSA got the drop on him starting

in 2004 (per Russell Tice) and now have got him by the short hairs. They're probably blackmailing him as I write.

[Jesus Malverde]

11. Russell Tice should get more play.

No boxes in his garage.

[grasswire]

5. then what we have is a constitutional crisis

and it's time to stop tip-toeing around the reality.

[HooptieWagon]

7. ^this^

Its quite evident there is a constitutional crisis. Its source and depth we don't know.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Been saying that for a few years.

That is one of the layers in the crisis

[gopiscrap]

3. Yup this country is out of control

and we have let it happen before our very eyes!

[LondonReign2]

9. I had no idea that there were so many

former NSA employees that dated pole dancers

[HooptieWagon]

10. And cardboard box hoarders...

[struggle4progress]

12. Binney left NSA in 2001. The NSA fired Tice in May 2005. O'Connor announced her resignation

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