Not just the politicians, much of the mainstream press too.

Exhibit: that NSA shares US citizen's private data with Israeli spooks is not newsworthy to NYT [0], even though Israeli paper Haaretz thinks otherwise [1].

[0] https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/new-york-times-nsa-israel-no...

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/report-nsa-sharing-u-s-citizens-data...