Trump Was Right: Obama's NSA Recorded All Trump's Communications

Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, said that a phone call he had was secretly recorded and played back to him by a reporter 2 years later [0]

Who in the intelligence community gets to decide what phone calls are leaked?

[0] http://thehill.com/media/323846-dennis-kucinich-on-trumps-wi...

Any NSA contractor with Snowden-level access (or even much less) could make millions, even billions, given sufficient time and a modicum of care.

CIA or NSA staff could (and I therefore assume, undoubtedly _do_) use surveillance information to their own personal advantage. For example, investments could be made on the basis of overheard conversations between financial analysts or corporate executives. In turn, funds gained could be used to finance personal or quasi-official projects.

The possibilities were once the stuff of spy novels, but far too real today yet too tantalizing to resist. They are also far too little examined, and necessarily must be scrutinized in depth by an army of civilian prosecutors with power of full disclosure and investigation.

The NSA, CIA and other intelligence agencies must be dismantled and only the "good" parts put back together. The "bad" parts must be destroyed permanently, the "bad" staff emprisoned and then barred from future employment in the fields of government and finance.

A more appropriate headline, from another news source: "NSA Whistleblower Binney: Trump No Exception to Surveillance State". Might be perfect if you point out Binney has been talking about this for almost two decades now somewhere in the headline, but that one is long as it is.

This 'whistleblower' resigned from the NSA in 2001. Yawn.