In 2011, Senator Ron #Wyden commented about domestic mass #surveillance: “When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry”.
Wyden now describes how the fallout from #Snowden's revelation is changing the attitude of the US Senate: ▻http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/two-years-later-senators-criticism-of-nsa-spying-sinks-in
“The intel community has not been willing to show how bulk phone record collection provides unique value, that they can’t obtain through emergency authorities and the court order process”.
“Political change doesn’t start in Washington and trickle down; it’s bottoms-up. [..] I never conceived of the day when people would come up to me at the barber shop and ask me about the #FISA court”.