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Wyden Continues to Press Intelligence Officials on Needed Domestic Surveillance Reforms

Press Release

By: Ron Wyden
By: Ron Wyden
Date: Sept. 26, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden today pressed top intelligence officials on the problems of building "an intelligence collection system that repeatedly deceived the American people" during an open hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Yesterday, Wyden, along with U.S. Senators Mark Udall, D-Colo., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to reform domestic surveillance laws and the secret surveillance court. The Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act will prohibit bulk collection of Americans' records, shield Americans from warrantless searches of their communications and install a constitutional advocate to argue significant cases before the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court.


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