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Ron Wyden is still at it... hinting, but not disclosing.
This weekend new issues may be becoming public.
Washington Post
David A. Fahrenthold
July 28, 2013
With NSA revelations, Sen. Ron Wyden’s vague warnings about privacy finally become clear
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It was one of the strangest personal crusades on Capitol Hill:
For years, Sen. Ron Wyden said he was worried that intelligence agencies were violating Americans’ privacy.
But he couldn’t say how. That was a secret.
Wyden’s outrage, he said, stemmed from top-secret information he had learned as a member
of the Senate Intelligence Committee. But Wyden (D-Ore.) was bound by secrecy rules, unable to reveal what he knew. <snip>
Two years later, they found out.
The revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden
— detailing vast domestic surveillance programs that vacuumed up data on phone calls,
e-mails and other electronic communications —
have filled in the details of Wyden’s concerns.
<snip>
Now, in the aftermath of Snowden’s disclosures, Wyden is pressing his case on two fronts.<snip>
On Friday, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. responded to a letter co-authored by Wyden with new details.
Washington Post
Peter Wallsten
July 26, 2013
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In the letter, released Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.),
a vocal critic of the surveillance program, Clapper said the problems had been
“previously identified and detailed in reports to the Court and briefings to Congress.<snip>
Wyden, in an interview late Friday, said
intelligence officials could “definitely” reveal more information
about the problems without compromising national security.<snip>
Wyden has warned in the past that the court’s secret interpretations of the Patriot Act
"gave the government the authority to collect other forms of bulk data,
including health information and credit card records.
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