Senator changes tune, now is “totally opposed” to foreign leader surveillance

Ars Technica writes of Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Senator changes tune, now is “totally opposed” to foreign leader surveillance.

“Let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed," Feinstein said. “Unlike NSA’s collection of phone records under a court order, it is clear to me that certain surveillance activities have been in effect for more than a decade and that the Senate Intelligence Committee was not satisfactorily informed. Therefore our oversight needs to be strengthened and increased.”

I wonder what she'll say when it turns out the NSA has been collecting her calls (which since they collect all calls I'm sure they have).

I just don't get this at all. The purpose of the NSA is to spy on other countries and you'd think you'd get more interesting intelligence listening to presidents than to say bakers. It is illegal for them to spy on Americans. And yet, people are upset that they're spying on foreign leaders and not upset that they're collecting all electronic communications of Americans at home. Of course they're spying on foreign leaders, that what spying is.

Colbert had a good interview about it with Mark Mazzetti.

In the meantime, Challenge to NSA spying pressed,

A privacy advocacy group, seeking to keep alive in the Supreme Court its challenge to the federal government’s secret sweeps of electronic and digital communication data, argued on Monday that the privacy of “every person in this country” is at stake in the case. It contended that the government — in this case and in lower court cases — is trying to shield the National Security Agency’s spying operation from any court review.