Sen. Sanders Wants to Know if NSA Has Spied on Congress

NEWSMAX: A U.S. senator wants the National Security Agency to reveal if it has ever spied on members of Congress, Talking Points Memo reports.

“I am writing to you today to ask you one simple question. Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wrote in a letter sent to NSA Director General Keith Alexander on Friday.

Sanders said he was “deeply concerned” about the recent revelations that the NSA is “collecting enormous amounts of information about phone calls that Americans make, emails that we send, and websites that we visit… (more)

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