<![endif] Features Greenwald Froomkin Documents Staff Contact Twitter Facebook RSS feeds By Dan Froomkin @froomkin 18 Nov 2014 Twitter Facebook Google Email Print Why McDonald’s Struggles Are a Good Thing Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here’s What Matters Instead. Is Texas Getting Ready to Kill An Innocent Man? NSA Reform Bill Dies As Republicans Hype Threats From Islamic State On Media Outlets That Continue to Describe Unknown Drone Victims As “Militants” Twitter Facebook Google Email Print Senate Republicans, ratcheting up their rhetoric about the threat posed by the Islamic State, on Tuesday night sank the only significant legislative attempt to rein in the National Security Agency in the nearly year and a half since  American citizens first learned they were being spied on by their own gover...