Remember the NSA references at the Bolton hearings?

Remember, way back during the Bolton confirmation hearings, it seems so long ago, some circumscribing discussions about Bolton misusing/abusing NSA intercepts? I remember specifically Bill Richardson claiming he was tapped and outed to Bolton over N. Korea.

Anyhow, Jason Leopold has a piece up on Antiwar about this practice, Cheney, according to source, apparently used this in an unprecedented way.

But the sources said that on dozens of occasions Cheney would, upon learning the identity of the individual, instruct the NSA to continue monitoring specific Americans caught in the wiretaps if he thought more information would be revealed, which crossed the line into illegal territory. .....

"What's really disturbing is that some of those people the vice president was curious about were people who worked at the White House or the State Department," one former counterterrorism official said. "There was a real feeling of paranoia that permeated from the vice president's office and I don't think it had anything to do with the threat of terrorism. I can't say what was contained in those taps that piqued his interest. I just don't know."

(I'm trying to follow you around to the different sites Jason, but it ain't easy.)

Also: Newsweek has a piece on the DoD "talon" database and "force protection" spying on antiwar groups.