According to Greenwald, the following people were under surveillance (these are the descriptions made available by Greenwald’s press agent):
- Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and one-time candidate for public office who held a top-secret security clearance and served in the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush
- Asim Ghafoor, a prominent attorney who has represented clients in terrorism-related cases
- Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor of international relations at Rutgers University
- Agha Saeed, a former political science professor at California State University who champions Muslim civil liberties and Palestinian rights
- Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country
Wonder about the non-muslim (real) conservatives and others.