“If the bureaucrats in Washington could get the core principles that protect the privacy of Americans distilled out of the secret FISA court opinions, and presented in a bill that makes its way through our increasingly ineffective Congress, maybe we wouldn’t have a problem with our youth becoming so nihilistic and distrusting of government,” Levay argued, adding, ”[m]aybe then, when Hayden’s successor, General Alexander, is speaking to the community he himself calls ‘the technical foundation of our world’s communications’, he wouldn’t find himself heckled by people who believe they are being lied to.”

Rattle blasts Hayden and Congress in WaPo.