Maybe it's because I've held a Top Secret security clearance once...

[zeeland]

168. There's an entire generation

that lacks the years of experience in The Beltway with a high security position.
They may not have been eligible to vote a decade ago when this was initially
being discussed. I suppose they qualify as "fucking naive, hyperbolic drama
queeners.

Given this revelation is a mere week old I hope they are tearing out their hair,
crying and getting in touch with their inner drama queen over the "sensationalized
common knowledge" they failed to grasp as a teen or preteen. Frankly, that goes
for any fucking naive idiot that wasn't paying close enough attention in 2001
when the FISA Act was amended.

There will be plenty of time for them to chill when they become old farts. Just like
the old farts with their years of high security clearance, sitting on the Intelligence
committee and asking if they can privately "Google."

Hopefully they will be shuck up enough to work towards ridding us of The
Patriot Act as the OP suggests, along with voting for The Democratic Party
as they have in the last two national elections.

Peace