NSA 'spied on prominent Muslim-Americans' - Americas - Al Jazeera English An online magazine has reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI covertly scanned the emails of five prominent Muslim-Americans under the US government's secret surveillance programme aimed at national security threats. The article in the Intercept , a venture by journalist Glenn Greenwald, said on Wednesday that the targets included a lawyer, a Republican political operative, a university professor and two civil rights activists. The Intercept said all five denied any involvement in terrorism or espionage and had not been accused of any crimes. The magazine questioned whether the government obtained legal permission for its surveillance. The account said that a three-month investigation using classified documents obtained from former NSA contract systems analyst Edward Snowden showed that "the system for authorising NSA surveillance affords the government ...
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