I am so sick of all the talk about how "the ability of law enforcement entities to conduct surveillance will be severely curtailed." if new FISA changes are not adopted.

Balderdash! The existing (and in force when telecom knowingly violated) FISA law is still in effect. Surveillance of a threat/suspect can be begin immediately for 30 days until a FISA court warrant is issued. FISA court is a panel of judges with high security clearance who can hear the evidence of probable cause of a threat and authorize continuing surveillance.

The only thing that will be "severely curtailed" by falling back to the existing FISA law is the ability of the Bush junta to ignore FISA court. The wide net, fishing expeditions of surveilling thousands/millions of American citizens with absolutely no probable cause will be "severely curtailed" as well.

EXACTLY!!