"Did the Obama Administration ever spy on Mitt Romney during the recent presidential contest?" It's interesting, in hindsight, that probably the seminal event

"Did the Obama Administration ever spy on Mitt Romney during the recent presidential contest?" It's interesting, in hindsight, that probably the seminal event in Mitt Romney's loss was via an unidentified person making an unapproved recording: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81346.html http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81346.html There was no real need for top down NSA surveillance here. All you needed was someone sympathetic to your cause ("an operative") who could infiltrate the oppositions meetings, with a cell phone.