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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Saxby Chambliss makes jaw-dropping accusation against Senator Ron Wyden [View all]kentuck
(115,441 posts)What we have is a secret cabal that tells the President what is in our national security and what he needs to do about it. They also have a handful of malleable Senators and Congressmen, like Diane Feinstein, Saxby Chambliss, and Mike Rogers from Michigan, that are easily guided and will keep all the secrets that the NSA gives them. They look at it only from a security standpoint and seldom will question the constitutional privacy concerns of the secrets. And the NSA then says that they have informed Congress and the Executive, and then they ask the secret court, the FISA Court, to approve their operations...and the Congress and the Executive have nothing but a rubber stamp. It has been thus for quite some time. It is a dangerous situation for our nation to be in, in my opinion. Important decisions like war and drones and assassinations and prisons are made by a secret cabal, away from the people and most of their representatives.