I'm WNYKYC in New York. This is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. If any doubts

remained that the Bush administration authorized spying on American citizens, former National

Security Agency analyst Russell Tice may have put them to rest late last month on MSNBC.

The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications.

It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, you know, in the middle of the country,

and you never made foreign communications at all.

They monitored all communications.

The agency had access to all Americans' communications,

but Tice said they targeted individual journalists

and news organizations. Many had suspected as much. In 2006, a group of journalists tried to sue the

NSA to find out if they were being spied on. The suit was dismissed. One reporter who was sure

he was being monitored was Lawrence Wright,

the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, Al-Qaeda, and the Road to 9-11.

His first clue came from one of his sources in the intelligence community, who told him he'd read

a summary of a phone call Wright had made to the Middle East. Later, two federal agents showed up at his

door with questions about another phone number he'd called. And they wanted to know, first of all,

who was it? I looked it up on my Palm Pilot, and it belonged to a solicitor in London,

who represents some of the jihadis that I had been interviewing for my book.

And then they began asking if the person on our end of the call, my end, was named Caroline.

And that's my daughter's name.

And they ask, you know, is her name Caroline Brown?

And I said, no, she's, you know, a student at Brown.

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