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Why the fuck is Wyden not going on the Senate floor and telling us about the CIA issue? (Original Post) SamuelTheThird 19 hrs ago OP
"He has perfect immunity to do so" LudwigPastorius 19 hrs ago #1
He does, on the floor SamuelTheThird 19 hrs ago #2
IIRC, the S&D clause, along with strategic use of House rules, is how The Pentegon Papers went public. CincyDem 19 hrs ago #3

SamuelTheThird

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2. He does, on the floor
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 04:58 AM
19 hrs ago

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At Foreign Policy, Professor Bruce Ackerman asks “should members of Congress use their special constitutional powers of free speech to force the facts about the [NSA surveillance program] out into the open?” Ackerman notes that under the Speech or Debate Clause, members of Congress “cannot be prosecuted for reading classified material into the public record– and it is up to them, and them alone, to decide what is worth talking about.” He therefore proposes that individual members of Congress who oppose the surveillance program, such as Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, disclose such classified information regarding the surveillance program as they believe the public needs to know. Ackerman dramatically concludes “[t]he moment of truth is now.”

https://www.pointoforder.com/2013/08/06/congressional-release-of-classified-information-and-the-speech-or-debate-clause/


If the CIA is going to be fucking with our election and/or cooperating with Russia, he sure as hell should inform the public

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