The NSA and the FBI spied on five prominent Muslim-Americans between 2002 and 2008, according to newly revealed documents provided by Edward Snowden to The Intercept.

A spreadsheet containing 7,485 email addresses includes the emails of five high-profile Muslim-Americans, and reveals that the spying agency has wide latitude when targeting Americans under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law that allows the government to obtain warrants to monitor U.S. citizens. This much-anticipated scoop, which had already been delayed by a week, puts into question the U.S. government and the NSA's claim that it only targets legitimate terrorist suspects.

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The five Muslim-Americans identified by The Intercept are: Faisal Gill, a former JAG officer in the Navy and a Bush White House official; Asim Ghafoor, a lawyer who has represented clients in terrorism cases (and who already accused the U.S. government of illegally spying on him); Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American political analyst and academic; Agha Saeed, founder and chairman of the American Muslim Alliance and a lecturer at California State University; and Nihad Awad, executive director and founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil-rights organization.

The five deny any involvement in terrorism activities. Gill, who faced allegations — eventually dismissed — of being connected to extremist groups for his work as the spokesperson for the American Muslim Council, said he did not understand why he would be placed under surveillance.

"I just don't know why," Gill told The Intercept. "I've done everything in my life to be patriotic. I served in the Navy, served in the government, was active in my community -– I've done everything that a good citizen, in my opinion, should do."

The Intercept has also published video interviews with three of the five targets, including the following one with Gill:

The five Americans can now challenge this surveillance in court, as Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain explained in their report, because they have proof of potentially illegal surveillance. In the past, courts dismissed challenges against NSA surveillance made by civil-liberties groups because they had no standing — that is, the groups couldn't prove they were targets of actual surveillance.

The report also includes a screenshot of a 2005 document that shows agents how to draft surveillance requests. The memo uses the fake name "Mohammed Raghead" where the name of the target would go.

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