By
Ivan Eland, February 14, 2006, Consortium News
It took
only minor concessions by the Bush administration to convince enough
Democrats to support the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act and end a Senate
filibuster blocking the bill’s passage. In fact on both the renewal of
the PATRIOT Act and warrantless domestic spying by the National Security
Agency (NSA), the Democrats have recently caved in or are signaling that
they soon will. [more]