Sen Wyden is trying to tell us something about the opinion justifying the phone records program

If the public and the media should learn one thing from the revelations from former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, it's to pay very careful attention to what Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) says. So if he hints that there's something worth reading in the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court opinion justifying the NSA's bulk collection of domestic phone records, that should serve as a bat signal to privacy advocates.

A report from Carol Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima shows he is doing just that: "The original legal interpretation that said that the Patriot Act could be used to collect Americans’ records in bulk should never have been kept secret and should be declassified and released," Sen. Ron Wyden said. "This collection has been ongoing for years and the public should be able to compare the legal interpretation under which it was originally authorized with more recent documents."