[gethimoutofthehouse]

Read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/anger-mounts-congress-telephone-surveillance-programmes?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20aux-1%20mini-bento:Bento%20box%208%20col:Position1

[brownsfan]

*snicker*

They’re so cute when they try to pretend to be angry at something they support. They’re so much like their daddy Obama.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Interesting that on last night’s Fox News panel A.B. Stoddard (from the left) thought it unlikely they’d monkey with the Patriot Act, while Stephen Hayes (from the right) thought it very likely that they would.

[cripplecreek]

Anybody know if the briefing will be televised on c-span?

[Enterprise]

I think that even low information voters don’t like having people listen in on their calls. Might have something to do with buying and selling drugs or other stuff.

[no-to-illegals]

Selective Outrage?

[Redleg Duke]

I watched that limp-wristed Graham on Greta last night. She was on fire and was pushing him all over the place.

It is obvious from Graham's statements and responses that he is under serious blackmail threats from Obama. His defenses were pathetic and he failed to directly answer her questions.

If he were a man, I would have been embarassed for him the way she was bitch-slapping him all over the set!

[txrefugee]

Now we’d really like to hear from Gen. Petraeus on the blackmail that he was subjected to. That would make interesting testimony.

[no-to-illegals]

at least these authors, of the article, didn’t hide behind Staff. In America our articles of this type are written by the keyword ... Staff.

[LibFreeUSA]

"I am here to reveal criminality"
Edward Snowden, June 12 - SouthChine Morning Post

What say you, Sen. Feinstein?

[upcountryhorseman]

Isn’t this a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment?

[UCANSEE2]

[But senior figures from both parties emerged from the meeting alarmed at the extent of a surveillance program that many claimed never to have heard of until whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked a series of top-secret documents.]

Because..... a $40 BILLION data center in UTAH gets built without their knowledge or voting to authorize the funding to pay for it ?

[Drawn7979]

we're a melting pot... some americans are not that american...

[RummyChick]

“There was a letter that we were supposed to have received in 2011 but I can’t find it and most of my friends in Congress did not receive this either,” said New Jersey Democrat Bill Pascrell, who claimed the widespread collection of phone data amounted to “spying on Americans … This is one of the first briefings I have been to where I actually learned something.””

interesting

[Billthedrill]

Well, thank God and the Constitution that we have freedom of the press in this country to bring this sort of thing into the light. What a pity “this country” no longer means “America”.

[schm0e]

thx. if it weren’t for the Guardian, how would we know what’s going on here?

[CodeToad]

BS. Congress is mad the NSA was spying on them. Many in Congress officially KNOW the NSA spies on US citizens.

[TurboZamboni]

The Government Accountability Office reports that 4.8 million federal employees and contractors hold clearances, without 'clearly defined policy' for determining which positions need them, leading to 'inconsistent and improper' designations. It's also time to heed the warning of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that the government keeps far too many secrets. Then perhaps it will be able to do a better job of protecting what really should be secret.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495604578537332863362470.html

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It will be a lot more interesting when the federal judges figure out that everything they and their families do is being spied on by several federal agencies. Hopefully this will make them peeved.

[newfreep]

h/t twitchy

[Jim Robinson]

Shut it down!!