Typical legislative sleight-of-hand - welcome to the sausage factory.
Further developments will probably reveal that the new law enshrines the status quo.
"NSA officials were pleased with the bill for another reason: The new arrangement will give them access to mobile calling records they did not have under the old program."
The people who also voted for this incarnation of the bill now wield another political tool come the next election season: calling their opponents flip floppers.
