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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.

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