“Once again, it appears the only way to make our nation’s intelligence oversight committees care about surveillance is to include them in the “fun.”
Unfortunately, our elected officials aren’t any better than most Americans. It’s all fun and games to violate the privacy, or prevent the practice of free speech, or other Constitutional freedoms when it’s other people. But when it gets turned around on themselves, suddenly it’s the most awful thing in the world.
It’s always awful.
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