Could journalists be the targets?

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The NYT reports today that NSA employees are miffed by the eavesdropping story because “domestic surveillance is anathema,” to their agency culture. “Mr. Aid said several agency employees he spoke with on Friday were disturbed to learn of the special program, which was known to only a small number of officials.” Those employees must be asking themselves the same question that a FISA judge asked in the WaPo today, “I need to know more about it to decide whether it was so distasteful. But I wonder: If you’ve got us here, why didn’t you go through us? They’ve said it’s faster [to bypass FISA], but they have emergency authority under FISA, so I don’t know.” The only reason I can think of is that the administration believed that their request would likely be turned down. But what sort of request would this court–infamous for never denying a warrant–turn down this time?

The NYT says: “Americans come to the program’s attention only if they have received a call or e-mail message from a person overseas who is already suspected to be a member of certain terrorist groups or linked somehow to a member of such groups.” Who would fit that description better than journalists?

Dec 22, 2005 | Comments

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