The recent controversy over the wide-scale surveillance of the nation’s communication by the National Security Agency has created a great deal of flip-flopping and “changes of heart” on the issue, both among the public and members of Congress. Take, for insistence, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.). The self-identified author of the Patriot Act
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