[KevinTheOmnivore]

The response to that however will be that certain members of Congress in fact have been briefed on the NSA activity, supposedly in accordance with the law (as Ant pointed out).

That's why Democrats in the Senate and House are now rushing to say that they never were. or that they only saw so much, or that they complained about it in the past (which to me says they still knew about it a while ago, so why no uproar then?).