Members of Alaska congressional delegation suspicious of NSA
data collection  Anchorage Daily NewsJune 14, 2013   WASHINGTON
-- Sen. Mark Begich is cosponsoring a bill that would end secret
interpretations of the Patriot Act, which enabled the National
Security Agency to collect billions of phone records from
Americans.  The Democratic senator reflects others' views in
Alaska's Washington delegation: Lawmakers are demanding more
transparency and congressional oversight on government
surveillance, though they won't say the programs need to be shut
down or that Congress should repeal the Patriot Act.  "I have
repeatedly called for a better balance between protecting our
safety and protecting our constitutional rights -- that's why
I've cosponsored a bill to end secret law and to bring greater
transparency and accountability in our government," Begich said.
The bill would require the attorney general to declassify
significant opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court, which can secretly authorize