U.S. Lawmakers Only Care About Privacy When their Own is at Stake

"We’ve seen this before: former Democratic ranking member of the House intel committee Jane Harmon was also a critical defender of Bush’s wiretapping program in the mid-2000s – that is, until she was caught on NSA wiretaps talking to an alleged Israeli agent. Then she quickly changed her tune. Likewise, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is notorious for defending the NSA no matter the scandal, so strongly condemned the NSA for spying on Germany’s Angela Merkel that a lot of people suspected she was so enraged because it was likely she was on some of Merkel’s recorded phone calls."