“The conservative host described the NSA’s surveillance programs as a ‘massive intrusion.’ O’Reilly warned that ‘corrupt government officials’ could leak sensitive data to hurt their political opponents. He said that keeping actual content of private conversations on file was ‘flat out unconstitutional.’ O’Reilly’s tune was far different under the Bush administration. At the time, he voiced strong support for the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program, which collected the telephone records of millions of Americans. In 2006, after a judge ruled the program was unconstitutional, O’Reilly speculated that she didn’t care if Americans were killed by terrorists.”
