What I worry about is...Specter and McCain are already foaming at the mouth to get the hearings up and running on this NSA thing...and you add "Reps" like Hagel to the mix...and this is gonna be worse than the 9/11 hearings...
AND, more dangerous, because we are STILL AT WAR...and these idiots want our intelligence gathering supposed "secrets" laid out in the public for the world to see...and in the process spank the CIC!!!
In all honesty .. Spector doesn't worry me as much as McPain does
Hearings are already scheduled.
I doubt they will be as dramatic as you think, and I seriously doubt they will result in any compromise to national security. It's possible to discuss what constitutes reasonable targets, and what constitutes reasonable oversight, without dislosing one iota of our "intelligence gathering supposed secrets."
In fact, if plyaed right, the hearings can marginally improve the surveillance effectiveness. I certainly don't see any harm coming from Congress expressing that it sees eye-to-eye with the President's actions.