spring wife's
is all part Ave larger process that is taking place now
directly in a and a hundred percent
a function
above the leaks from Edward snowed without a doubt
and
a Ron Wyden was at the Center for American Progress yesterday
if you haven't had the opportunity to watch the hour-long speech were gonna go
over some the highlights right now
%uh very important stuff here
is when to widen starts in talks about the frustration
that he had now I Glenn Greenwald makes a point
in the the interview that will be running tomorrow that they were aware
that they could have spoken out against that now of course they would have in
violation of senate
rules but here is where widened was talking about
the first rationing watching public officials lie
about the secret law and feeling that he could not
in any way publicize this this is clip number one I had seen government
activities conducted under the umbrella
above the Patriot Act that I knew
would astonish most OVR people
at the time senate rules
about classified information barred me
about giving out any specifics and so we come
came to describe what was going on
as essentially secret law a secret
interpretation the Patriot Act issued by a secret court
that authorizes secret surveillance programs
programs that I am several colleagues thought
went far beyond the intent up the statute
now if that's not enough to give pause
then consider that not only were the existence of
in the legal justification for these programs
kept completely secret from the american people
senior officials from across
the government were making statements to the public about domestic surveillance
that were clearly misleading statements
and it cut sometimes they were simply
fall off senator mark Udall and I tried again and again to get the executive
branch
to be straight with the public but under the classification rules
served by the Senate we aren't allowed to exactly
cap out the truth in Morse code again the statement from the white house this
blunt approach is not the product have an informed
opener deliberative process how wide goes on to say
know there was no public discussion of this and there was no
means in which to review how the law has been interpreted this is number two
at a time understandable panic
the congress gave the government new surveillance authority
but the congress also attach expiration date
to these authorities so that they could be deliberated
more carefully once the merge in C
once the immediate emergency had passed yet in the decade
seventh law has been extended several times with no public discussion
about how the law has actually been
interpreted the result the creation
Ivan always expanding on the president's surveillance state
that now ships away needlessly
the liberties and freedoms are foundering fathers
established for all of us and its all done
without the benefit I've actually making
of safer soaking day here at the center
I'm gonna deliver another warning
if we do not see is this unique moment in our constitutional history
to reform our surveillance laws and practices
we r all going to live to regret it