Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Not even members of Congress are immune to the NSA’s wide surveillance reach.
During a House Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole admitted that the NSA “probably” collects phone records of lawmakers and their staff, the National Journal reports.
But Justice Department official said the information isn’t used without a reason to search.
“We’re not allowed to look at any of those, however, unless we have reasonable, articulable suspicion that those numbers are related to a known terrorist threat,” Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said.
