"That's some catch, that Catch-22."

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
Meet the new news...

The Federal Communications Commission will not pursue complaints about the National Security Agency's access to millions of telephone records because it cannot obtain classified material, the commission's chairman said in a letter released on Tuesday.

…which Steve Benen reminds us is the same as the old news…

This comes just two weeks after the Justice Department announced it would not conduct a review whether the NSA's warrantless-search program was legal because it couldn't obtain classified material either.

As Steve says, Congress could do the investigation, but won't.

Not this Republican Congress.

One more reason…