These people are so spectacularly dishonest. Peter Maass, Senior writer at The Intercept, formerly of the NYT, now practicing yellow journalism:

Why is the NSA recording Oprah’s phone calls? Another great story from the Snowden archive by @ggreenwald & co. https://t.co/pyfxWKR1gg

— Peter Maass (@maassp) May 19, 2014

There is nothing in the article about US Persons’ communications being retained.