Congress Warns DOJ That If It Doesn't Support NSA Reform Plan, It Won't Renew Key Patriot Act Provis

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8. Sometimes slow and sometimes remarkably rapid, as with FDR's first hundred days

and LBJ getting both the civil rights act of 1964 and the massive Great Society agenda passed.

And sometimes, it never goes anywhere at all.

Hence, I don't start cheering as soon as I hear somebody said something. A threat is definitely better than nothing, but, in the end, it is just a threat. And, at this point, we've pretty much kissed the 4th amendment goodbye anyway. They might cut back a notch or three, but we are never going back to what the Fourth Amendment intended.

Because terrorists want our freedoms.