secret government and still remain a democracy is if there is some part of our government that is allowed to oversee what the secret agencies do. if those agencies use their clandestine tactics against the government, that's a sort of thing that's an instant forfeit. that's the kind of thing that undermines the whole justification for any part of our government to have any kind of power of secret action. what dianne feinstein alleged on the floor of the senate today is a huge constitution-sized big deal for our country. i will light up every room i walk into.