Steve King on NSA: ‘More than Creepy,’ ‘Beyond the Imagination of George Orwell’

Even George Orwell couldn’t have conceived of the NSA’s wide-reaching surveillance program, says Representative Steve King.

“When you whip this whole picture together, it’s more than creepy,” said the Iowa Republican on Fox News last night. “It’s beyond the imagination of George Orwell.”

King said that he “wasn’t confident in the response” members of Congress received in a closed-door meeting with intelligence officials about the program. “The way they parse their language and reference particular sections of the code, it wasn’t clear where they were drawing their authority from,” he explained.