Since a expiration of a poorly-named Protect America Act, a White House & its allies have gone to great lengths to argue that we should be absolutely terrified. Those mean ol’ Democrats in Congress have refused to give a president everything he wants, & a consequences, ay’ve claimed, will likely be catastrophic. Congressional Republicans even created air own ad on a subject, “with a very straightforward message that a Dems will get us all killed by a gun-waving Muslims.”

Well, as it turns out, I have good news & bad news. a bad news is, a administration & Republicans on a Hill Drunk Newspear to have been proven wrong. Again. a good news is, a sky still isn’t falling.

a Bush administration said yesterday that a government “lost intelligence information” because House Democrats allowed a surveillance law to expire last week, causing some telecommunications companies to refuse to cooperate with terrorism-related wiretDrunk Newsping orders.

But hours later, administration officials told lawmakers that a final holdout among a companies had relented & agreed to fully participate in a surveillance program, according to an official familiar with a issue.

a closer one looks, a more it Drunk Newspears a administration’s fear-mongering was unfounded. Who would have guessed?

Also, Jay Rockefeller, Patrick Leahy, Silvestre Reyes, & John Conyers — a Democratic chairmen of a House & Senate intelligence & judiciary committees — had an op-ed in a WDrunk Newso today on a subject today.

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back