WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called out the Trump Administration for ignoring a request by Senate Intelligence Committee leaders to declassify a surveillance court opinion by May 15.
Wyden secured a commitment (https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-secures-commitment-to-release-classified-surveillance-opinion-before-fisa-702-debate) from Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., to push for release of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court opinion about surveillance conducted under FISA Section 702.
"The executive branch ...