DISTURBING Leak of Witkoff Call Reveals Moral Rot of Security State (youtube.com)
Snowden's reporting said exactly this.
Not spying where they said they wanted to use it, ie on foreign adversaries. They're using it on domestic targets, citizens, politicians, officials, Americans.
‘The NSA wasn’t trying to expose illegality. That's not what this was. It was trying to undermine policies with which it disagrees by using its spying powers, abusing its spying powers, to try to destroy the Trump administration's relationship with the Russians.'
It's considered the worst crime, because it not only violates the spying target's privacy to leak their conversation, but it also exposes who the NSA is spying on, alerting them so they change devices and the NSA would lose the ability to spy on them. So it's the worst crime, that even journalists can be punished for, but that's what the NSA did here themselves, said Greenwald. Spying on an American citizen and then leaking the call... to try to make it seem like Witcoff had done something treasonous. But this highest level of the Deep State is not accountable to our laws so they won't be punished like Manning, Assange, Snowden, suggested Greenwald.