
“Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald on Sunday chided the U.S. government for claiming it had provided ‘robust oversight’ of the NSA even though members of Congress were forced to go to his paper to learn about secret programs that gather data on American citizens. ‘We keep hearing that there’s all kinds of robust oversight by Congress,’ Greenwald said, adding that lawmakers had provided ‘very detailed letters trying to get this information and they’re being blocked from getting it and they’ve said, and other members have said that they are forced to learn about what the NSA is doing from what they’re reading in our reporting.'”
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