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Sarah Jeong
Senators only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
Yesterday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) publicly sent the director of the CIA an unclassified letter referring to a classified letter he had previously sent him, describing it as one “in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities.”
Wyden is known to do this — as a legislator with a security clearance and a seat on the Senate intelligence committee, he is very careful not to disclose classified information — but when he sees something wild, he send up a vague signal flare that something is wrong. Spencer Ackerman recounts one of the previous times this happened, back in 2011: “It would take Edward Snowden, two years later, to reveal what Wyden was talking about.”
