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
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.
See http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/scott-prouty-47-...
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
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.