Known NSA-defender Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is now calling for \u201cheads to roll\u201d over the recent accusation that the CIA was spying on Senate computers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHeads should roll, people should go to jail if it\u2019s true,\u201d Graham said. \u201cIf it is, the legislative branch should declare war on the CIA.\u201d<\/p>\n
His statement is nothing short of hypocrisy considering his ardent defense of the National Security Agency\u2019s surveillance program that spies on Americans citizens, without having a search warrant.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Richard Nixon stuff. This is dangerous to the democracy,\u201d he added about the revelation.<\/p>\n
Tuesday morning, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, also a defender of the NSA, took to the Senate floor to accuse the CIA of unconstitutionally spying on Senate computers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have grave concerns that the CIA\u2019s search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution,\u201d she said. \u201cI have asked for an apology and a recognition that this CIA search of computers used by its oversight committee was inappropriate. I have received neither.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sen. John McCain slammed the CIA as well.<\/p>\n
Security leaker Edward Snowden, however, noted the hypocrisy of Feinstein Tuesday, calling it the \u201cMerkel effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s clear the CIA was trying to play \u2018keep away\u2019 with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that\u2019s a serious constitutional concern,\u201d he said in a statement to NBC.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s equally if not more concerning that we\u2019re seeing another \u2018Merkel effect,\u2019 where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it\u2019s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.\u201d<\/p>\n