The public debate over FISA in the U.S. has followed the same route as so many other public debates on hard topics: it’s been ill informed, driven by extreme views, shaped by partisanship rather than pragmatism and resulted in a second-best outcome that nobody likes. The whispering you hear is people beginning to ask if our government is too broken to work anymore.
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