A related article that goes along with the subject of the topic

 http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5150

 Summary - NY Times (and other media) supported Clinton's surveilance program that would capture "virtually every electronic conversation around the world." that seems to suggest - US Citizen conversations too. According to a study at the time:

“ECHELON is also being used for purposes well outside its original mission. The regular discovery of domestic surveillance targeted at American civilians for reasons of ‘unpopular’ political affiliation or for no probable cause at all… What was once designed to target a select list of communist countries and terrorist states is now indiscriminately directed against virtually every citizen in the world,” Poole concluded.

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