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Lawmakers say obstacles limited oversight of NSA’s telephone surveillance

• pwg 13y ago
  > because rules restrict their ability to speak with other members and the public. The amazing irony here is that the "rules" that are "restrict[ing]" them are of their own making. They certainly know/understand how to change the rules when they want to do something for themselves, such as vote for their own pay raise, yet here they simultaneously forget how to change the rules. The excuses sound like just that: "excuses". An attempt to argue "it's not my fault, it was the rules".