Is President Spying On Congress ???

President Barack Obama announced two years ago he would curtail eavesdropping on friendly heads of state after the world learned the reach of long-secret U.S. surveillance programs.

But behind the scenes, the White House decided to keep certain allies under close watch, current and former U.S. officials said. Topping the list was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The U.S., pursuing a nuclear arms agreement with Iran at the time, captured communications between Mr. Netanyahu and his aides that inflamed mistrust between the two countries and planted a political minefield at home when Mr. Netanyahu later took his campaign against the deal to Capitol Hill.

The National Security Agency’s targeting of Israeli leaders and officials also swept up the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups. That raised fears - an “Oh-shit moment,” one senior U.S. official said - that the executive branch would be accused of spying on Congress.

You can read the rest @
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-net-on-israel-snares-congress-1451425210

Frankly, if one is going to spy on Israel it's only natural the US Congress would be included, since it is one Israel's most important foreign policy focus groups.

While we're on the subject of spying, let me remind you that Hillary directed the US State Department to peek at international diplomats in a most obscene manner:

I hope this puts to rest the notion that we would live in a liberal paradise had Hillary Clinton become president instead of Barack Obama ... not to mention the notion that we already live in a liberal paradise because Barack Obama won. 

Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats, the CIA, and the FBI to spy on highest echelons of UN officialdom, including Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and World Health Organization, the Guardian reports. The U.S. event wanted biometric information of UN officials including DNA and iris scans.

The U.S. wanted information on a variety of UN activities including relief operations that might involve terrorist organizations. Spying on the UN is illegal and wrong. But I can see how someone might at least rationalize spying to prevent cash from falling into the hands of Hezbollah. Some of the other items on the wish list are bizarre, frivolous, and/or downright shameful, however: 

It also wanted to know about plans by UN special rapporteurs to press for potentially embarrassing investigations into the US treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, and "details of friction" between the agencies co-ordinating UN humanitarian operations, evidence of corruption inside UNAids, the joint UN programme on HIV, and in international health organisations, including the World Health Organisation (WHO). It even called for "biographic and biometric" information on Dr Margaret Chan, the director general of WHO, as well as details of her personality, role, effectiveness, management style and influence.

You can read the rest of that report @
http://bigthink.com/focal-point/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-ordered-diplomats-to-spy-on-un-re-guantanamo-hiv-more

You can bet your sweet bippy that Hillary has an extensive and capable spy network which keeps track of her political opponents and her many "enemies". She more or less reminds me of J. Edgar Hoover in a dress (which allegedly was a garment he often wore).

Do we really want another President who lies through her teeth about everything? I don't.

By the way, the phrase "liberal paradise" is more or less equivalent to the term "coercive utopia".