According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency
now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet
searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel
and telephone records. The NSA receives this so-called "transactional"
data from other agencies or private companies, and its sophisticated

The disdain and uncooperative nature that this
administration has shown toward Congress, including Republican Members,
is so egregious that I can no longer assume that it is simply
bureaucratic incompetence or isolated mistakes. Rather, I have come to
the sad conclusion that this administration has intentionally