There were and are many people calling it for what it is. Defenders of the bill would sometimes respond sarcastically with what they thought was hyperbole. The

There were and are many people calling it for what it is. Defenders of the bill would sometimes respond sarcastically with what they thought was hyperbole. The reveal about warrantless wiretaps slowly encroached on their retorts, but the FISA courts, NSLs and the mass collection of everyone's communications and whereabouts is really when we came full circle.