Flutterby™! : Historical NSA abuses

Foreign Policy: Secret Cold War Documents Reveal NSA Spied on Senators. The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel has responded to an appeal by the George Washington University National Security ARchive, forcing the NSA to reveal names from the Vietnam War era:

... Civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Whitney Young were on the watch list, as were the boxer Muhammad Ali, New York Times journalist Tom Wicker, and veteran Washington Post humor columnist Art Buchwald. But perhaps the most startling fact in the declassified document is that the NSA was tasked with monitoring the overseas telephone calls and cable traffic of two prominent members of Congress, Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Sen. Howard Baker (R-Tenn.). ...

But there's no evidence that the assorted lies we've been told to excuse the modern overreaching surveillance is covering up explicitly abusing presidential power to harass political opponents yet. So we're good, let's let bygones be bygones.