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Mainly newsmedia connections. I'm not sure if you (ustwo) are aware, but I'm considering becoming a politician in the next 10-12 years. To that end, I've been making a lot of friends lately. Larger news organizations have many, many resources to exhaust, and they can sometimes have access to materials that are not easily accessed. Frankly, I'm no closer to finding it today than I was a year ago, but at least I'm trying. I have calls into friends at several newspapers and tv stations right now. I've also called several people I happen to know in law that could protect me from litigation. My only concern is that the document is probably classified and hidden away somewhere, and I'm having trouble reconciling outing classified material with my promise not to break any laws. I've decided to investigate to the extent of my abilities, and only release the material if it is found that the people on the list are simply people who dislike the current administration and such, versus known terrorists and people who actualy pose a threat to national security.
As far as motivations, it's very simple and legal to find background information on citizens of the US. If I had the list, it would be a simple matter of verifying that the people were or weren't a threat to National Security. If, for example, there are two 80 year old men born and raised in New York who have absolutely no ties to any foreign power, organization, or govnerment, and who's only crime seems to be talking about how Bush is an idiot...well it's obvious that these people are not planning the next 9/11. This is obviously a simplification of the my means, but I belieev that it serves to illustrate my intent.
Honestly, since the existence of the wire tap list is already public knowledge, it should be declassified. If there are dangerous terrorists in the US, then they undoubtedly are using a type of communication that would avoid a wire tap now. It's become useless.
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