The first was that the world's heads of state were not prepared to act as is necessary.
Mark Donahue, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said his organization "absolutely supports" the eavesdropping act as is and was relieved that the challenge had failed.
"Any departure from this carefully crafted compromise will undoubtedly reduce support for it in the House and prolong the expiration of these intelligence tools, and I urge the Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act as is and without any further delay," Schiff said on Monday.
"I do think that on this side of the building the vast majority of Republicans are very concerned about moving to something that we don't know is going to work," Republican Tennessee senator Bob Corker, who supports extending the Patriot Act as is, told the Guardian after the meeting.
The failure to act, as is obvious here, is equally egregious.
The CIA is also in on the act, as is the FBI, which has its own national security mission that focuses on the domestic sphere, and conducts a "substantial" but uncounted number of searches on the surveillance data.
