"Congresscritters will probably try for a reduction of the NSA's budget"
Not if the leadership and seniors have anything to do with it. Boehner called Snowden a traitor; he doesn't want to be told what Snowden knows. And Feinstein has defended the programs.
Wyden and Udall are in the minority. Everyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee heard what those two heard, and there were no words of discontent or reform beyond what those two said. Indeed, most of you probably know their names only because of their faint opposition. They've been speaking as much as they dare for years, which means the rest of the committee has known for years. And yet, nothing.
Most, if not all, of the SIC members are the politically powerful members of the Senate, who will only be replaced at the polls if they screw up in an unrecoverable way (usually a sex scandal - people remember those). At any rate, because it's a rotating membership, there's no guarantee that anyone with any shred of decency toward privacy will wind up on it.
Congressmen have to be re-elected, and they have to show to their constituents that they have done _something_ to protect their privacy... There will be change.
Congress at large has the worst approval ratings in years, possibly ever. And yet we keep on mostly re-electing the individuals that make up the body, while in the same breath complaining about Congress.
Not if the leadership and seniors have anything to do with it. Boehner called Snowden a traitor; he doesn't want to be told what Snowden knows. And Feinstein has defended the programs.
Wyden and Udall are in the minority. Everyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee heard what those two heard, and there were no words of discontent or reform beyond what those two said. Indeed, most of you probably know their names only because of their faint opposition. They've been speaking as much as they dare for years, which means the rest of the committee has known for years. And yet, nothing.