[csandreasen]

Jim Sensenbrenner is the last person who should be lecturing on dragnet surveillance. He was one of the writers of the PATRIOT Act, then failed to attend any classified briefings where the NSA explained what they were doing with the phone records program. He later went on to admit that he didn't attend them because didn't want to have to deal with the burden of handling classified information[2]. He had at least six opportunities to hear exactly what was going on, voice his dissent and put forth legislation to curtail it. Instead he put the laws into place then shirked his duty to provide any oversight, somehow proud of the fact that he was legislating from a position of willful ignorance. That kind of behavior is exactly what the EU should be warned about.

[1] http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/patriot-act-architect-cries-foul-...

[2] https://www.lawfareblog.com/shameless-revisionism-james-sens...