Ron Wyden: “We must ensure that U.S. companies cannot be secretly ordered to facilitate the surveillance of Americans.”

Congress is not only a co-equal branch of government, it is the First Branch.

Earlier this year, he demanded answers from the Treasury Department about sharing taxpayer data with ICE.

The U.K. government’s unprecedented demands for secrecy in this matter undermine democratic governance in both the United States and the U.K., and needlessly strain the relationship between our two nations.

No government can be allowed to place its demands beyond the reach of legislative inquiry.