Spying on America

The Obama Administration went into spin-control mode with the outlandish claim that

President Obama told reporters Friday that members of Congress are repeatedly briefed on how these programs are conducted and that they were approved by bipartisan majorities. “What you’ve got is two programs that were originally authorized by Congress, have been repeatedly authorized by Congress,” he  said.

That is an outright lie according to Jeff Merkley (okay he didn't use the lie word), but here is what he had to say about who knew what in congress.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley says he had no idea the National Security Agency was tapping into the servers of top Internet companies, and was only aware that the NSA was monitoring phone records after he specifically sought that information out.
“It was not something that was briefed outside the Intelligence Committee,” he said of the government’s access to phone company data. “I had special permission to find out about the program. It raised concerns for me.”
On Now with Alex Wagner Friday, Merkley said he was prohibited from saying anything about the program because it was classified. “The part I was aware of was that there was a broad vacuum sweeping up data across America. The details were another step removed from what I found out when I asked what was going on.”

 The administration is lying.  Furthermore they are opening a criminal investigation to find out which of the millions of people who knew, leaked it.  I hope they don't find out, the leaker should get a medal, and take possession of the Nobel prize given to Obama.