What if your a cup half empty person who looks as this as a failure as now all the people on the fence will have reason to ignore this issue for the next few years baring some kind of new revelations.
Seriously, who in congress is going to be supporting a bill in the next 3 years to cut more powers from the spying apparatus when they can just say "We just did that, it's time to talk about X instead".
Seriously, who in congress is going to be supporting a bill in the next 3 years to cut more powers from the spying apparatus when they can just say "We just did that, it's time to talk about X instead".