CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield July 12, 2014 18:18:00
The five americans based off an nsa spreadsheet titled fisa recap. the foreign intelligence act allows the government to monitor u.s. citizens with a judge's afrooufl the fisa court. the spreadsheet designate 20s 2 e-mail addresses belonging to u.s. persons and nearly 2,000 belonging to foreigners. many of the e-mail addresses on the list reportedly belong to foreigners the government believed were linked to hamas, hezbollah. >> we're concerned about our security and the fundamental rights we have as americans. >> reporter: the government under president george w. bush allegedly began monitori...