{"id":129061,"date":"2014-07-09T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=129061"},"modified":"2014-07-09T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:53:53","slug":"greenwald-gop-official-spied-nsa-without-warrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/greenwald-gop-official-spied-nsa-without-warrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwald: GOP Official Spied on by NSA Without Warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thomas R. Eddlem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The NSA warrantless surveillance program nominally geared at spying on foreigners has also spied on innocent Americans without a warrant, including a Republican Party operative, a civil rights activist and several university professors. The<a style=\"color: #bc0202;\" href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/article\/2014\/07\/09\/under-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0revelations by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald<\/a>\u00a0raise the possibility that NSA warrantless surveillance has been used for political \u2013 rather than security \u2013 purposes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-108943\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/greenwald-383x215.jpg\" alt=\"greenwald\" width=\"383\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greenwald&#8217;s July 9 revelations \u2013 based upon information supplied by whistleblower Edward Snowden \u2013 profile five innocent American citizens who were surveiled without the constitutionally-required warrant from a court based upon probable cause: Republican Party operative Faisal Gill, Attorney Asim Ghafoor (a former aide to Democratic Congressman Ciro Rodriguez of Texas), Rutgers University Professor Hooshang Amirahmadi, Former California State University Professor Agha Saeed (an opponent of the USA Patriot Act) and Council on Islamic-American Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad. Greenwald&#8217;s sample of about 7,500 e-mail addresses monitored by the NSA (the NSA monitors many more than that number) contains 202 addresses positively identified as \u201cU.S. persons,\u201d 1,782 as foreigners and 5,501 persons as of \u201cunknown\u201d national origin.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald noted that all five Americans surveiled happened to be Muslim, and suggested that this may be a religious test for surveillance. Indeed, FBI training documents\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bc0202;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2011\/09\/fbi-muslims-radical\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed by Wired.com<\/a>\u00a0in 2011 view all Muslims as potential radical, bomb-throwing terrorists or allies of those terrorists. And Greenwald&#8217;s July 9 research reveals an internal NSA training document uses \u201cMohammad Raghead\u201d as a placeholder for surveillance targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/18655-greenwald-gop-official-spied-on-by-nsa-without-warrants\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas R. Eddlem The NSA warrantless surveillance program nominally geared at spying on foreigners has also spied on innocent Americans without a warrant, including a Republican Party operative, a civil rights activist and several university professors. The\u00a0revelations by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald\u00a0raise the possibility that NSA warrantless surveillance has been used for political \u2013 rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}