GARY NORTH:
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon is by far the most outspoken foe in Congress of the NSA and the domestic surveillance state that was created by Woodrow Wilson in 1917, accelerated by Harry Truman, and made exponential by the passage of the Patriot Act in 2001.
He delivered a remarkable speech on July 23 at a meeting held by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This is a standard Democratic Party Beltway organization: pro-union, pro-global warming, pro-green, pro-big government. But on civil liberties, it is on the side of rolling back the federal government in general and the NSA in particular.
Wyden's speech was a summary of how the NSA has provided incorrect information to Congress and the public. He did not say "lies," but this is what he clearly meant. He admitted that Snowden -- unnamed -- blew the whistle on the NSA. Snowden provided evidence of the extent of the data collection, which the NSA's director had categorically denied to Congress had been going on. Wyden's speech is the best summary I have read on the extent of the NSA's systematic deception of Congress.
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