My point, which I was trying to make somewhat suggestively (but perhaps not spelled out clearly enough) was that the Kennedy Administration, an administration not very aggressively interested in surveillance, engaged in illicit surveillance and wiretapping. So one can only imagine what an administration that is aggressively interested in surveillance is doing.

I’m surprised that you’re surprised that the Kennedy Administration was spying on journalists. The Kennedy Administration’s record on civil liberties wasn’t great. It tolerated–encouraged, even–Hoover’s antics, like his attempts to intimidate Martin Luther King, Jr., in part because they knew Hoover had plenty of leverage on them. As far as what future documents might reveal, I wouldn’t be surprised to find less of what went on in the days before investigative journalism.