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Talk-radio host Michael Savage is among the public figures who were under surveillance by the National Security Agency as part of its Project Dragnet, according to a database revealed by an agency whistleblower.

Jerome Corsi, an investigative reporter for Infowars.com, told Savage on The Savage Nation radio show Monday that one of Savages email addresses was discovered in the database.

Infowars.com said the database has evidence of spying on U.S. citizens from 2004 to 2010, but Corsi told Savage there is no indication the surveillance has stopped.

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It shows Donald J. Trump and Infowars founder Alex Jones also were under illegal, unauthorized government monitoring during those years.

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Infowars.com obtained sections of the database from Michael Zullo, formerly the chief investigator of the Cold Case Posse, a special investigative unit in the office of Joseph Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona.

Project Dragnet was first revealed by news reports in 2005 and further documented by the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.

Corsi told Savage he discovered the database included some 50 entries for Donald Trump and his businesses and family members.

They were all over Donald Trump starting in 2004, when the database starts, he said.

Corsi said, regarding Savage, that he found two solid hits in the database in 2004 and 2005, which was during the time of the George W. Bush administration.

Anybody who was prominent at that point, the NSA was going after to collect data. And it was not necessarily at the direction of George W. Bush. They were doing it on their own initiative, Corsitold Savage.

Last Tuesday, as WND reported, the day of the launch of his new book, Trumps War: His Battle for America, Savage was violently attacked at a San Francisco-area restaurant by a man who appeared to have been politically motivated.

In his interview with Corsi Monday, Savage noted that, legally, Americans cannot be spied upon without a judges order from a FISA court.

Thats the way its supposed to be, Corsi affirmed. But these millions of entries, its impossible for me to believe they went to get FISA rulings on any of these.

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Corsi said Arpaio and Zullo have identified dozens of entries in the database at various Trump addresses, including Trump Tower in New York City and Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

Most of the political figures, Corsi said, had no idea they were under surveillance.

He said that while he has information that the operation began, he has found no indication that it has stopped.

Savage said he must assume that his emails were being monitored.

Corsi added: And they go after your bank accounts, your credit cards your tax returns.

They assembled a comprehensive file on you, and Im confident that file remains intact, Corsi said.

Why would the government do this? Savage asked.

Well, just to have it available. Just in case they decided that they were going to, in any way, go after you or blackmail you, or just create a profile.

Corsi said a full congressional investigation is necessary, calling it an enormous, flagrant violation of your rights and everyone in that database, which are millions of Americans.

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March 20, 2017, 8:21 a.m.

The director of the National Security Agency said the Obama administration did not ask British intelligence to spy on Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, as White House Press SecretarySean Spicer alleged last week.

Adm. Mike Rogers said such a request to eavesdrop on a U.S. citizen would be "expressly against the construct" of intelligence agreements with the British and other close allies.

"I have seen nothing on the NSA side that we ever engaged in such activity" or was asked to conduct surveillance of Trump by Obama, Rogers said.

Rogers testified during the first congressional hearing into Russia's role during the 2016 presidential campaignand into President Trump's claims, first made on Twitter, that Obama had wiretapped him at Trump Tower.

Last Thursday, Spicer repeated a claim by a Fox News commentator that British intelligence had spied on Trump before his inauguration to keep "American fingerprints" off the surveillance.

The British signals agency, known as GCHQ, issued a rare and angry denial. A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May also denied the charge, and the British Embassy in Washington complained to the White House.

Trump last week declined to withdraw the allegation during a newsconference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and referred reporters to Fox News for comment. Fox News later said it had no evidence "full stop" to support the commentator's claim.

Rogers declined to discuss press reports that U.S. surveillance picked up several telephone conversations between retired Lt. Gen Mike Flynn, who was ousted as national security adviser last month, and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States, after last year's election.

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NSA director says US government did not ask British intelligence to spy on Trump - Los Angeles Times

Today's big event is the testimony before Congress of FBI director James Comey and NSA chief Mike Rogers. Everyone seems very excited about this except me. Let's listen in:

The F.B.I., as part of our counterintelligence effort, is investigating the Russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president election, [Comey] continued, adding that the investigation included looking at whether associates of Mr. Trump were in contact with Russian officials, and colluded with them.

....Mr. Comey told the House intelligence committee, We have no information to support President Trumps assertion on Twitter that President Barack Obama tapped Trump Tower.

....The N.S.A. chief, Admiral Rogers, weighed in as well, saying that he had no knowledge of anyone asking the British or any other ally to wiretap Mr. Trump. That refuted another claim made by the White House....He then explicitly denied having any indication that Mr. Trump was wiretapped by British intelligence at the request of Mr. Obama.

So the FBI is investigating possible ties between Russia and some of Trump's campaign aides, but Obama didn't order any kind of wiretap or surveillance of Trump Tower. We already knew this, right?

Now, none of this means there was any Trump-Russia collusion, nor that there was no surveillance of Trump. The first is still under review, and the second could have been ordered as part of a criminal investigation that Obama had nothing to do with. But it does mean, essentially, that Trump's March 4 tweets were just made-up rubbish based on a Breitbart story that someone stuffed into his pile of reading material. Of course, we already knew that too, didn't we?

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NSA Director: Decision to Unmask 'Really Important' People Can Depend on Whether He's 'Comfortable' CNSNews.com (blog) If the person mentioned in an investigation is really important, officials will check with him to make sure he's comfortable before making that person's name public, National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers testified in a House hearing Monday. and more »

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WASHINGTON House Intelligence Committee Republicans told the intelligence community Monday that they may not want to reauthorize an intelligence gathering tool that may have snagged and IDed former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn during surveillance of Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

I have every expectation that those we are going to get all the evidence that we need. Now if it wasnt then, yeah wed have a problem, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told The Daily Caller when asked if members may not reauthorize the surveillance initiative if the intel community does not cooperate and provide names of any individual involved with the leak of Flynns name.

Florida Republican Rep. Tom Rooney, who chairs a subcommittee that oversees the National Security Agency, disclosed at the House Intelligence Committee hearing Monday he was concerned he will have a difficult time convincing his fellow Republican members that they should vote for reauthorizing an expiring section of the Patriot Act at the end of the year.

Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government can collect intelligence by targeting foreigners suspected to be outside U.S. borders. However, incidental conversations these individuals have with Americans can happen and that is what members believe happened to Flynn.

But as an American citizen, his name must be masked. Instead, Flynns name was revealed and released to the press.

If it hurts, this leak, which through the 702 tool which we all agree is vital, you and I at least agree to that, do you think that leak threatens our national security? If its a crime and if its unveiling a masked personand this tool is so important and when we have to reauthorize it in a few months if this is used against us to reauthorize this tool and we cant get it done, Rooney said in an exchange with NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers.

He continued, Whoever did this leak or these nine people who did this leak [if they] create such a stir, whether it be in our legislative process or whatever, and they dont feel confident that a U.S. person under the 702 program can be masked successfully and not be leaked to the press, doesnt that leak hurt our national security?

Rogers answered in the affirmative.

Fellow intelligence committee member South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy stated that getting their members to support reauthorization may only happen if the intelligence community tell them who leaked Flynns name.

What we are reauthorizing this fall has nothing to do with what we are discussing, Gowdy said, but added that the public does not draw the distinction.

During the hearing, Rogers disclosed that only 20 people, including himself and FBI Director James Comey, could possibly have decided to have unmasked Flynns name. However, the other names were not revealed.

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