Sharyl Attkinson (CBS correspondent) announced in 2013 that she had been spied on for the previous two years - that taked it back to 2011
Some believe it was going on since 2008.
Remember the timeline
When Attkinson got a lot of press on this, it was then that the Snowden story came out - blaming the NSA
I now believe the Snowden story was invented to deflect from the Hammer program story
Clowns had the materials from Hammer and published using the Snowden invented story
No sauce - but just from readings on Hammer and timeline events
Think Andrew Breitbart and Michael Hastings
This all goes back to Brennan and Clapper IMO