> trying to understand It's better than that, though. He and Udall have spent years talking about mass surveillance and telecoms abuses as major problems, and

> trying to understand It's better than that, though. He and Udall have spent years talking about mass surveillance and telecoms abuses as major problems, and made very few friends doing so. I agree that "in Congress but acting like a decent human" wouldn't be enough, and it frustrates me endlessly that positions like "was mostly against torture most of the time" are somehow laudable when they come out of Congress. But Wyden's access to confidential briefings means he's actually sounded a lot of alarm bells that other people couldn't, and that deserves some recognition.