Congress should do a fuller investigation, beyond any...
Congress should do a fuller investigation, beyond any one existing committee, into National Security Agency surveillance, said the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a blog post Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1aFbuMj). EFF’s Mark Jaycox and Lee Tien lament the lack of information members of…
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Congress seem to have, and the limits of what members have managed to learn from intelligence officials in hearings throughout the past half-year. “But any investigation into the NSA’s activities must include a review of the current Congressional oversight regime,” they wrote. “Since the creation of the intelligence committees in 1978, there has been no external audit or examination of how the system has performed.” They back the creation of a special congressional committee to investigate.