Infuriating, but did we really expect any differently? These programs are a bureaucrat's wet dream. A single congressional hearing is not going to make them go away. The continued leaking of the more incriminating documents - an inevitability at this point - is only thing that can put sufficient pressure on these people to change their course.

Can it? So far it seems that anytime the status quo is challenged, the establishment responds with yet another power grab.

I wish I was in the rubber stamp business. Clearly a lot of profit potential there.