It was one of the strangest personal crusades on Capitol Hill: For years, Sen. Ron Wyden said he was worried that intelligence agencies were violating Americans' privacy.
But he couldn't say how. That was a secret.
Wyden's outrage, he said, stemmed from top-secret information he had learned as a member of the Senate intelligence committee. But Wyden, a Democrat, was bound by secrecy rules, unable to reveal what he knew.
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