A funny line: > Some of them border on the absurd, using titles that could apply to only one man. A “minimized U.S. president-elect” begins to appear in the fi

A funny line: > Some of them border on the absurd, using titles that could apply to only one man. A “minimized U.S. president-elect” begins to appear in the files in early 2009, and references to the current “minimized U.S. president” appear 1,227 times in the following four years. Barton Gellman clarified: > Lotta questions on this. The 1200 references to “minimized US president” come when people talk about him in intercepted conversations. https://twitter.com/bartongellman/status/485604791867817986 https://twitter.com/bartongellman/status/485604791867817986 So this doesn't confirm that the NSA was reading Obama's mail, like Russ Tice has claimed. But it does belie NSA's claims that Snowden had no access to FISA material, and cast doubt on all their "stringent" security procedures to prevent misuse of intelligence material. If Snowden could sneak out with it, what else could be done without their knowledge?