Representative Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, will retire from Congress to take a job in talk radio. The former FBI agent, a leading apologist for mass surveillance, is likely to keep misrepresenting the NSA controversy. But he'll no longer oversee a national-security state that co-opted him.

Instead, he'll earn lots of money at Cumulus Radio, where the current roster includes Don Imus, Mark Levin, and Michael Savage. I don't know why civil libertarians never thought of this before: NSA apologists in Congress have proved themselves adept at shameless distortion, a skill integral to right-wing talk radio. What if they can all be lured out of the legislature and into the AM echo chamber?

Take Representative Peter King, who is vying to take over the House Intelligence Committee. He'd be perfect for talk radio. He's called the New York Times "apologists for terrorists" and a "blame America first rag" that "doesn't care about the lives of Americans being lost." When Rand Paul criticized James Clapper for perjuring himself before Congress, King called Clapper a American patriot. He said Paul disgraced himself.

Forget defeating national-security demagogues at the ballot box. If civil libertarians can just orchestrate jobs in a vocation that suits them better than safeguarding the liberties of Americans—e.g., professional demagogue—they'll go voluntarily. Legislators who leave for cushy gigs in the private sector have never sounded so good!