
Shaun Waterman: GOP Rep: House would have nixed NSA program
"The House in late July voted 217-205 to defeat an amendment that would have cut funds for domestic data gathering by the NSA except where based on individualized suspicion. Mr. Griffith says that the intelligence community, which defended the program and worked to preserve it against the legislation onslaught, misled Congress. 'We were being told there were ‘some’ errors, like a few,' Mr. Griffith said...." [rdbrewer]