Needs a thread of its own!
I would do a thread of my own on this story. However, this was a report published by ABC News in October 9, 2008. It implicates the Bush Administration’s NSA. If the Obama Syndicate is true to form, this type of activity may still be happening. It questions whether any kind of safeguards to protect against it have ever been put in place. See the original piece from ABC:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1#.UbOnX9h9_XQ