Senate Blocks Patriot Act Extension
The Senate struggled to prevent an interruption in critical government surveillance programs early SaturdayThat is a very strange way to start this article. Consider to what type of government, activity of this sort(unencumbered spying on all of its citizens) would be 'critical.' Is that the type of government you believe the United States has or should have?Then after making this strange statement and providing no support for it, the article actually goes on to refute the claim. If nearly half of the senators are against it, then it is surely not very 'critical,' is it?Maybe instead of 'critical,' the author meant to say 'much criticized.'