A Spine Installation for Congress, Please

Powerline makes a poignant observation on the House's risible action to amend the Patriot Act to forbid its use to subpoena records from libraries or booksellers:

The upshot of this, if it becomes law, will be that the FBI can obtain an order permitting it to obtain possession of any tangible object whatsoever, from any person or organization, except the records maintained by libraries and bookstores. I, as counsel of record for any party in any civil lawsuit venued in any state or federal court in the United States, can obtain records from libraries and bookstores. But the FBI can't, at least not if it is conducting a terrorism investigation.

These weasel politicians will do anything to escape being labeled "anti-civil liberties."