Well whaddya know?

Not much you?

For the, oh, thirteenth or fourteenth time Bush lies, causes Democrats to cave, and we end up with even less rights than before (and by the way once you lose 'em you hardly ever get 'em back).

Republicans and the Bush administration used a 'bogus' terror threat that raised specific fears of an attack on the Capitol to scare lawmakers into adopting a dramatic temporary expansion of the government's spy powers last month, a former top intelligence committee Democrat said Wednesday...

"That specific intelligence claim, it turned out, was bogus; the intelligence agencies knew that," Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) said at a forum on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act organized by the Center for American Progress in Washington. However, lawmakers did not learn of the claim's unreliability until "the day" they approved the FISA expansion, she said.

Let us symbolize it for you, I think you can guess the respective roles: