> would we ever have had a Martin Luther King Here's a possibly-relevant excerpt from an article I wrote for CNET on the topic (before I left earlier this year

> would we ever have had a Martin Luther King Here's a possibly-relevant excerpt from an article I wrote for CNET on the topic (before I left earlier this year to found http://recent.io/ http://recent.io/): ...Project Shamrock had a "watch list" of people whose conversations would be identified and plucked out of the ether by NSA computers. It was initially intended to be used for foreign intelligence purposes, but at its peak, 600 American citizens appeared on the list, including singer Joan Baez, pediatrician Benjamin Spock, actress Jane Fonda and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....