this is a crucial point, alex, you just asked about. the obama administration has been saying for years but certainly over the last year. you need not worry, spying is completely legal and constitutional. every time the aclu and other groups and people sued to get a ruling on whether or not this is legal and constitutional, the obama justice department goes into court and raises a technicality and says they can't prove they were subjected to the spying and therefore they have no standing to actually sue because we all do it in secret and nobody can prove they were spied upon. the courts throw the case out. the five right wing judges on the supreme court last year accepted the argument and threw the indicaticases out. now these people have prove they were subjected to spying and you'll see lawsuits that the

surveillance aren't buying it. i feel i'm being targeted because of my first amendment activities protected under the constitution. >> i believe i was targeted because of my name, that had something to do with it because there were former bush administration officials representing aweddy entities and i doubt their e-mails were tapped. >> not helping the argument that this had nothing to do with ethnicity or race or religion. a nsa training document that uses the fake name mohammed rag hold as a place holder for a target name. the nsa would not comment on that authenticity and says the nsa has not and will not approve

strong, stay active with boost. >>> following closely on the "washington post" report over the weekend that nine out of every ten people caught up in the nsa internet dragnets are regular internet users with no ties to terrorism comes another nsa revelation. this one is courtesy of snowden leaked glenn green wald and shows from 2002 to 2008, the nsa and fbi spied on e-mails of five high profile muslim americans, the executive director of the council on american islamic relations or carr and country's top muslim civil rights organization. also included is gill, a former bush administration official who held top secret clearance while working at the department of homeland security. >> i was a very conservative reagan loving republican.

held top secret clearance while working at the department of homeland security. >> i was a very conservative reagan loving republican. i just don't know what's in my background. if somebody like me can be surve surveilled, i can only imagine. >> none of five have a criminal record or any known ties to terrorists. they were likely targets because of their muslim background. today the director of national intelligence rejected that saying in a joint statement it is entirely false and u.s. intelligence agencies conduct electronic surveillance of political religious or activist figures solely because they disagree with public policies or based on ethnicity or sexual orientation or religion. but the targets of that surveillance aren't buying it.