Today, neither Congress nor the American public has sufficient evidence to make an informed judgment about the NSA’s activities on either count. Early signs, to be sure, bode ill. Newsweek has reported that the NSA shared intercepts on Americans with now-U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Walter Pincus of The Washington Post has revealed that the Army’s Counterintelligence Field Activities, a sister agency of the NSA, has been collecting and labeling information about Quaker meetings and law school students’ campaigning as “threats” to the military. Ominous echoes resound of FBI and CIA domestic surveillance programs during the Cold War that swept up civil rights leaders (including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), anti-war protesters and women’s rights activists as potential enemies of the state.
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