Senators clueless about NSA bombshell

Personal and intimate information—details on romantic relationships, résumés, pictures—for thousands of non-targeted individuals have all been caught in the NSA’s surveillance driftnet, according to the newspaper.

All of that, you might think, would be a matter of some interest to the senators who control the budgets and oversee the activities of the nation’s military and intelligence agencies.

Or not. Sen. Lindsey Graham—who sits on the Senate’s armed services, appropriations, and judiciary committees and is one of the Republican Party’s most prominent voices on defense and intelligence issues—wasn’t familiar with the Post piece.