And that the Senate vote on making the Bush doctrine changes to it has been delayed numerous times--last August and December.

It isn't about the sky falling DougR. It is about being able to know what the spy agencies and the executive branch are doing in our name--you know, that checks and balances thing in a document we call the US Constitution.

Considering the long, history of serious abuses by the US spy agencies, not to mention their involvement in the largest official propaganda campaign in US history which resulted in getting us into this awful, illegal war against Iraq, some citizens feel we need to stick with the constitution, not the commander-thief.

If this bill passes, no one in Congress will have the legal right to review the FISA cases and see the intelligence, unless the executive branch feels like showing it to them. Which is how the Bush administration has been running the show, de facto, and in violation of the laws of the land.