Spying on Congress | TribLIVE
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Just when you thought the NSA spying scandal couldn’t get any worse, it has.
S en. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote to Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, and asked plainly whether the NSA has been or is now spying on members of Congress or other public officials .
The senator’s letter was no doubt prompted by the revelations of Edward Snowden to the effect that the federal government’s lust for personal private data about all Americans and many foreigners knows no bounds and its respect for the constitutionally protected and statutorily enforced right to privacy is nonexistent.
But the NSA refused to answer Sanders’ question directly. And that’s a tacit admission because we are all well aware that the NSA collects identifying data on and the content of virtually every email, text message and phone call sent or received in the United States.
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If members of Congress are treated no differently than the American public, then the NSA is keeping tabs on every email, text and phone call members of Congress send and receive, too. Which raises a host of constitutional questions.