Now that the "full" Congress has been schooled in what's really going on at the NSA, maybe they'll get off their asses and do something. That is of course, if the congressional body is tech savvy enough to ask the right questions. We think this is critical, considering Senators like Saxby Chambliss and Diane Feinstein hardly inspire confidence in their abilities to comprehend a tech heavy presentation of current and future digital tracking capabilities.
Our observations of Feinstein (79) and Saxby (69), Chair and VIce Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, lead us to conclude, their eyes would glaze over with helpless confusion within minutes of a complex briefing. Without the aid of an throughly grounded IT professional staffer to explain what they'd been told, they'd have no clue of what they'd been briefed on.
Think of it, how can one provide adequate oversight of things they don't understand. Perhaps this would explain why many Congressional representatives actually failed to show up at previous invitations. Worse even, How can they provide oversight of things they never knew existed.
Like two doddering old fools trap in a high pressure vacation time-share sales pitch, Fienstein and Chambliss would just nod approvingly to hide their ignorance and proceed to sign off on virtually anything. Thankfully, early reports indicated the crash course of "Domestic/Global Spying for Dummies" conducted behind closed doors was informative enough to piss a few folks off. In our opinion, thats good a start!
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, already pissed may have been forced to drink the Kool-Aid, but at least he was conscientious enough to ask what was in it. Silenced and sidelined for years, Wyden did everything he could to sound the alarm without blowing the whistle.
But now armed with recent revelations of the National Security Agency's globalized efforts to sweep vast amount of personal data without any credible oversight, Wyden has been unleashed. His first order of business has been to call fr hearings to have James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence's explain his misleading responses to very direct queries concerning the NSA's domestic intelligence gathering. This ought to be fun to see.
But now armed with recent revelations of the National Security Agency's globalized efforts to sweep vast amount of personal data without any credible oversight, Wyden has been unleashed. His first order of business has been to call fr hearings to have James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence's explain his misleading responses to very direct queries concerning the NSA's domestic intelligence gathering. This ought to be fun to see.
Sen. Wyden has also joined a group of senators who introduced legislation Tuesday to force the government to declassify opinions of the secret court that authorizes the surveillance. Wyden is also getting and assist from others as well. The ACLU filed a law suit against the Obama administration asking the government to halt the phone-tracking program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans and that it says is unconstitutional.
If President Obama really wants the nation to debate this red hot issue, lets not disappoint him.
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