NSA surveillance critics to testify before Congress

…Grayson said those testifying would include the American Civil Liberties Union as well as representatives from the right-leaning Cato Institute…

…The congressman added that Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first revealed details of the surveillance programmes leaked by Snowden, had also been invited to testify via video-link from his base in Rio.

“Even today, most people in America are unaware of the fact the government is receiving a record of every call that they make, even to the local pizzeria,” Grayson said…