Greenwald Mocks NSA ‘Robust Oversight’ - Congress ‘Being Forced To Learn About NSA In Our Reporting'

[David Krout]

33. Senator Merkley (D-Or) sought information and was refused

You falsely claim that all a Congressperson needs to do to know about NSA programs is ask.

"“The administration hasn’t listened at all,” Merkley said. “We’ve asked for the rulings of the FISA court – the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court – about how it interprets the laws Congress passes to be declassified so we can have a conversation with the American people about that.”
Then he said, the administration "has not been willing to release the opinion of the FISA court in how they’re interpreting that language, despite repeated requests from Congress to do so.”

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You also appear to either ignore or not to have read the article about Grayson and Griffith being denied information about these programs. It is imperative that we do good research before we post something.