I just finished reading the democracy now interview with Shane Harris about total information awareness (TIA) and it left me wondering:

"Congress" cancelled TIA but Congress evidently re-authorized it by funding the secret NSA budget. So, the question I have is:

Did NSA hide from congress what it was doing with the money? Or did Congress know and was hiding what *it* was doing from the public while making a show of cancelling TIA?

Or did *most* of Congress think it was cancelling TIA, but a *few* members of Congress (those on committee(s?) that know what the secret NSA budget funds) did know that they were funding it despite the will of most of Congress????

Is there anyway to find out at least procedurally what the answers to those questions are?