I think classified wrongdoings at national intelligence agencies like the CIA fit right in on Hacker News. In the US, few politicians go as far as Wyden to hold such intelligence agencies accountable. (Semantics note: most employees of government agencies are not politicians.) You can't expect whistleblowers and non-government hackers to do all the work.

Perhaps posting this article was premature, because the classified wrongdoings Wyden concerns himself with today remain unknown. I find Edward Snowden's leaks of classified documents about NSA surveillance relevant to Hacker News, so if you can overlook the boring present, feel free to treat TFA as a brief reminder of an interesting yesteryear:

> Apparently, one of the things that reportedly pushed Snowden to leak was watching then Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, lie to Wyden’s face in a hearing about whether the NSA was collecting data on millions of Americans.