In a country like sours, where runaway, unsupervised surveillance by the government has beomce a norm countenanced by most of our elected representatives, including the President, you can be sure that some of that snooping is going to be used for political advantage.
Sentator Bernie Sanders has now asked the question that should be on everyone’s lips: Is the NSA spying on Congress? We’ll see how the NSA wiggles out of this one.
Jon Queally at Commondresm.org does a great state-of-play report.