And why should I believe that given that the agency [and government] said it wasn't listening in on the conversations at all? Moreover, why should I find any mercy for these who so blatantly defy the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments? — No, they need punished. Government agencies need to find themselves in terror at the idea of overstepping Constitutional bounds.
Spooks / Spys/ Lies = all have the same meaning
In neither case did the House exercise its authority and punish the FBI agents, and given limited resources on Capitol Hill to imprison someone, there's really only one thing they could do, and they didn't do that, and they didn't do anything to those agents.
I said that down the road other federal cops will see how weak Congress is and take advantage of it, and so here we are.