Echelon in the UK monitors all US calls.
The DNC makes phone calls in the US.
Therefore, Echelon is monitoring the DNC.
The White House has access to Echelon intercepts.
The White House is run by a GOP president.
Therefore, the GOP is telling the UK to bug the DNC.
Whereas, the reality is that this stuff has been going on for decades, and is independent of the GOP and the Dems, other than our reps keep allowing it to happen.
Echelon doesn't monitor voice, it monitors data.
As such, this is a non-story wacko-conspiracy theory being pushed. BECAUSE the DNC isn't being 'targeted'. Hell we all are being 'watched' by the Brits MI-6 (or is it MI-5), the Aussies and I think canada too - all in conjunction with the NSA. And BTW it started under Willard's reign.
In short, Project Echelon monitors every single email, and as I recall cell phone call in the WORLD. Our NSA monitors for our allies and they monitor us. Only certain key words are looked for and if they 'get a hit', our allies inform our FBI of a 'possible threat'.
Back in the early or mid 1990's a woman in Michigan sent an email to a freind about her daughters school play. In the email she used the word 'Hillary' (her daughters name) and BOMB - as in the play was a bomb. A couple days later the FBI showed up at her door, took her into custody for questioning and kept her for a couple days as I recall.
The key word list contains about 500 words as I remember. The list was once available online. For the hell of it I would sometimes copy every key word and send that to a friend. In my closing paragraph, I'd say hello to the NSA & the FBI and ask if they always wear dark sun glasses, even if it's raining. I wasn't concerned because I've been through so many security clearance and FBI background checks my file is about two inches thick anyway.
Do a Google search and get ready for some reading, it's very enlightening and makes the Patriot Act look like your local traffic laws.