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I'm all for it. But hopefully the Congress people that will be part of the investigation team won't be the same people that butt-kissed the intelligence chiefs at the past 2 hearings.

Put Wyden and Udall in charge, or even better - some people from EFF/ACLU.

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Wyden and Udall are already on the Senate committee that oversees the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Co...

They have been for years, if anyone's been paying attention.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/politics/democratic-sen...

Yes, but the reason that they would be good candidates to lead the hearings is that they've been trying to warn us about surveillance abuses for a while. They didn't wait until it was politically advantageous (read: after the Snowden leak) to do so.

Source: the second link in your comment.

I'd be contempt with just EFF being one of the 3rd parties to observe and cover in detail congressional investigation of the issue, in some official account of transparency.

That's also more realistic goal.

I think you mean "content"; "contempt" has almost an opposite meaning.

Thank you.

I'd actually be quite happy if there was a permanent oversight committee containing members of either or both of the EFF/ACLU, with the exception that they're not allowed to leak programs, but are allowed to call for an independent Special Prosecutor to investigate abuses at any time. In fact I think the government could do a better job in general with liaising with non-profit NGOs.

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