There is something spooky going on,” the FBI official told Baker. The National Security Agency was eavesdropping on Americans without a warrant from a FISA Court judge, the FBI official said. If true, the wiretapping was a flagrant violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other Church reforms designed to protect Americans’ privacy and civil liberties. Some officials in the bureau “were getting nervous” about the new surveillance, the FBI official said. He asked Baker if he knew anything about it. Baker replied that he did not.
