Y’all may not have seen this.
Recall, please, that the NewsHour is venerated in Washington as the sober Word of Truth among the elite. For very good reasons, frankly; bias aside, they’re still better than most at what they do.
So I’m just gonna accept what Tice and Binney say as potential gospel. The NewsHour may be a lot of things, but they don’t put cranks on the air.
RUSSELL TICE: This was in 2002-2003 time frame. The NSA were targeting individuals. In that case, they were judges like the Supreme Court. I held in my hand Judge Alito’s targeting information for his phones and his staff and his family.
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