From the realclearpolitics.com article
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Greenwald, who is promoting his book No Place To Hide and is trailed by a documentary crew wherever he goes, was speaking in a boutique hotel near Harvard, where he was to appear with Noam Chomsky, the octogenarian leftist academic.
"One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying is, 'Who have been the NSA's specific targets?'," he said.
"Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we'd regard as terrorists?
What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer."
Greenwald said the names would be published via The Intercept, a website funded by Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder and chairman of eBay. Greenwald left The Guardian, which published most of the Snowden revelations, last autumn to work for Omidyar.
In case you ever doubted news is about making money.
Now lets say for fun that those are almost 2 million Americans as no doubt my name would be on that list (if it included non-Americans, but then again if they didn't check me out then they really wouldn't be doing their job), that would be like half of one percent of the US population, and then of course how many of those received more then the first pass look (or were looked at in regards to investigating someone else, ie connections). The NSA isn't looking like the big scary monster everyone has been told it is, so they will need to dress this news up in a big way to get folks attention (wonder how much ads are selling for this broadcast).
If this is the big news, then the real information and objectives are still happily chugging along behind the smoke screen.
Blake
