I urge everyone here to read this article about Congressman Pike's fight against the NSA: http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-... This part especially stuck out to me: > Pike was less interested in sensational scandals like Church’s poison darts and foreign assassination plots than he was in getting to the guts of the intelligence apparatus, its power, its funding, its purpose. He asked questi…
[...] proverbial monkey playing with a live grenade.
Now I'm curious! What proverb do you imagine he was thinking of here?