Documents leaked by two members of Congress reveal the difficulty some U.S. lawmakers have in gaining access to basic information about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders. Reps. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Alan Grayson (D-FL) disclosed “numerous letters and e-mails documenting their persistent, and unsuccessful, efforts to learn about NSA programs and FISA court rulings,” Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian writes. In another burgeoning story, Reuters reports on a separate surveillance program run by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency “that extends well beyond intelligence gathering.” The data gathering efforts of the Special Operations Division “raises fundamental questions about whether the government is concealing information used to investigate and help build criminal cases against American citizens,” the report states.
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