February 5, 2007 -- This editor had a brief conversation with Governor Richardson at the Washington Hilton. We spoke about the following article in the Albuquerque Tribune from Dec. 26, 2005: "Gov. Bill Richardson is concerned that some of his phone calls were monitored by a U.S. spy agency and transcripts of them were given to the president's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Richardson called Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, to express his concerns after Dodd revealed that Bolton had on 10 occasions asked the National Security Agency for the intercepts of phone conversations involving Americans. 'The governor is upset that his conversations with Secretary Powell would be intercepted since most of them were domestic calls,' said Richardson spokesman Billy Sparks. 'The governor felt his calls about North Korea were confidential' . . . Sparks said Richardson's call to Dodd was triggered when he read an online story by Washington journalist Wayne Madsen. The story said intelligence community 'insiders' claim the NSA circumvented a ban on domestic surveillance by asserting that the intercepted calls were part of 'training missions.'" Governor Richardson told this editor on Feb. 3, "you were right about that story." Hopefully, the Democratic leadership in the Senate and the House will revisit NSA's and John Bolton's illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens in violation of criminal statutes. If the governor of a state cannot be assured of his constitutional rights, can any of us?