Well-connected former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy provided some inside details in The Corner regarding the deal on Friday to reauthorize the Patriot Act for an additional four years. Judging by the reactions of McCarthy (a very, very pro-Patriot Act advocate) and some of the news stories out there, it looks like many of the senators who were arguing for significant reforms in the Act's provisions essentially caved. Of course, the Patriot Act's renewal was politically inevitable, in one form or another, but a cynic might say that many of those senators held up its reauthorization just to score cheap political points.
Glad I'm not a cynic.
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