Reply #12: Campaign 2004: Were Bush / Cheney / NSA illegal wiretaps spying on Dems? [View All]

[L. Coyote]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=975902&mesg_id=975941

You write: "However, who knows how far the Republican breach of privacy went..."

The linked thread above covers the illegal spying story. However, there is no reason to relegate this to the past tense. There are other programs we have not been told about. The NSA story got press because the NSA is legaly restricted from spying within the US. The real spying story is with those not so restricted?

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