Wyden: If we don't...revise our surveillance laws now... all of us are going to regret it.

[Savannahmann]

3. Interesting.

Congress was prohibited under classification rules to expose the true extent of the intrusions into our privacy that were going on. Without public pressure, then all that they had to go on was the idea we would appreciate it if no further attacks came. The ends justified the means. Now, we're having debate on the issue because of that hyperbole scammer as you call him. So how can you like the statement that we should have had this discussion a long time ago, while detesting the source of the information we needed in order to debate.

Because if we had discussed it as a hypothetical, we would have been accused of spreading Conspiracy Theory. So which is it? Is the debate long over due, or should Snowden and Greenwald have kept their mouths shut. Because it is one or the other. Until we know at least the broad overview of the programs being used against us, we can't debate it intelligently. And if you do keep abreast of the more well considered CT, then you know that all of these programs are right in keeping with the capabilities of the US Government.