Bernie Sanders Demands To Know If NSA Spies On Congress

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to the National Security Agency head asking if the agency ever spied on members of Congress.

“I am writing today to ask you one very simple question,” Sanders wrote in the letter addressed to NSA Director Keith Alexander. “Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials? ‘Spying’ would include gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business.”

Sanders wrote that while he believes in securing America against terrorism, he worries strategies to do so undermine citizens’ constitutional rights.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.