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In reply to the discussion: Conyers, Nadler, and Scott: NSA-Phone Tracking is Overbroad; Call for Immediate Hearings [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)that it was illegal. What he did not say, as you are attempting to imply, is that he's now happy that the NSA has not DONE anything illegal. Show me THAT quote.
Since Congress wasn't briefed despite the lies told that they were, and many of them are making it clear they were not, like the President until now, Nadler believed since it was illegal they wouldn't be doing it.
So he's happy to hear his belief that it is illegal confirmed by the President.
Now he wants to find if they were doing it anyhow.
Please stop trying to interpret what people can read for themselves.
They have confirmed they are collecting phone data 'domestically'. THAT is illegal.
Ron Wyden who cannot speak publicly about what he knows: IF the American people knew what they are doing with the law, they would be outraged!
And it's possible the President doesn't know either, just like Congress. So Nadler wants hearings. It's possible that they've been lying to the President too. Just like his advisers on Offshore Drilling lied to him which was proven, tragically, 18 days after he announced that they had assured him Oil Rigs were now safe and the ban could be lifted.
Maybe he should get rid of all those Republicans he has appointed and put some more trustworthy Democrats in those positions. Why he would trust these people is beyond me.