World leaders seek answers on US collection of communication data

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7. This is exactly why I really like

Edward Snowden. Too many times, agencies do everything they do in a total vacuum. They never have to answer hard questions. This is the same kind of lack of oversight that allowed Abu Ghraib and waterboarding and Guantanamo. If we're lucky, some member of the intelligence committee might raise a question or two, but no entrenched member is going to risk his or her seat by raising an actual objection.
Now everyone is looking into it. Everyone is asking questions and giving opinions. The politicians are having to defend what they do to the people that put them into power.
The job of an elected official should be a mind-numbingly miserable experience.