Weak oversight of NSA may lead to massive location tracking
The National Security Agency (NSA) needs no new court rulings or eavesdropping tools to see how angry Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is about its conduct and oversight.
In a 45-minute speech at the Center for American Progress, the senator denounced the combination of an "always expanding, omnipresent surveillance state" and a covert corpus of law that hardly restraints it.
"That's not the way we do it in America!" he said, his voice rising. "We don't keep laws secret!" "You simply cannot have an informed debate," he continued. "And when the American people are in the dark, they cannot make fully informed decisions about who should represent them."
