John Conyers actually said...

There is no question that the government can and does intercept and listen in on the communications of U.S. persons.

This practice is explicitly prohibited by law--but with so much about these programs conducted in secret, we have no way of knowing for sure...

The government assures us that this problem, although widespread, was an accident and has been corrected.

After all, we want to improve the laws. I know you are very generous in your compliments about the Congress acting on this originally. But f...