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Did the NY Times feel this wasn't worth mentioning?
In the book, which quotes extensively from anonymous sources, Risen said the NSA spying program was launched in 2002 after the CIA began to capture high-ranking al-Qaeda operatives overseas, and took their computers, cellphones and personal phone directories.
The CIA turned the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses from the material over to the NSA, which then began monitoring the phone numbers - in addition to anyone in contact with the telephone subscribers, the book said, saying this led to an expansion of the monitoring, both overseas and in the United States.
The NY Times reported the spying as being on suspected terrorists communicating to or from overseas. They made it sound like the spying might be on innocent Americans. But according to the AP story quoted here, the book based on the same reporting used in the NY Times' story states that the phone numbers being tapped come directly from the computers, cell phones and phone books of captured al-Qaeda operatives.
Perhaps Hillary feels foolish now for "saying that she opposes spying on 'Americans.'"
Can you imagine a world in which a nation is not permitted to spy on the phone numbers from the phone books of captured terrorists who target that nation's citizens? If the Left had its way, that would describe the U.S. today.
