Why does Congress seem poised to hand over extraordinary new wiretapping powers to the President, when just months ago it was convulsing over the renewal of much more minor tweaks of the Patriot Act?
That's what the hawkish national security law expert Orin Kerr wants to know.
Kerr suggests a few possible answers, including:
Other possibilities, according to Kerr, are that, unlike Congress, the Administration knows what its doing, that people are tired of hearing about anti-terror spying, and that the press over-hyped the Patriot Act and first mis-described the NSA bill as a "compromise".
The whole post is definitely worth your time, and the comments are pretty smart too, until you get to the guy who suggests sending a certain federal judge to Guantanamo.
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