The NSA Oversight Farce This weekend we learned that President Barack Obama's NSA surveillance panel, built at least in theory to vet our intelligence activities and weigh their performance against the right of privacy, went on hiatus after the government shutdown froze its funds. It was an emblematic moment. As a nation we couldn't even keep the farce of oversight in play long enough to have it ultimately disappoint us.
Oct. 7, 2013 - TechCrunch