Wyden Former Chief of Staff Speaks on Spying

Jennifer Hoelzer was Wyden's Chief of Staff during the years that Wyden was trying to expose the NSA practice of warrantless surveillance, and she wrote an Op-Ed for Techdirt, a progressive news site where she recounted the many years Obama and NSA gagged the discussion, or even the mention, of their warrantless surveillance despite Wyden repeatedly requesting a public dialog.  Ron Wyden and Mark Udall then put out a statement that you ain't seen nothin yet, there's a lot more to come.

"The executive branch has now confirmed that the rules, regulations and court-imposed standards for protecting the privacy of Americans have been violated thousands of times each year. We have previously said that the violations of these laws and rules were more serious than had been acknowledged, and we believe Americans should know that this confirmation is just the tip of a larger iceberg.
"While Senate rules prohibit us from confirming or denying some of the details in today's press reports, the American people have a right to know more details about the scope and severity of these violations, and we hope that the executive branch will take steps to publicly provide more information as part of the honest, public debate of surveillance authorities that the Administration has said it is interested in having.