"I will do everything I can, including a filibuster, to stop this Patriot Act conference report, which does not include adequate safeguards to protect our constitutional freedoms," said Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who was the only senator to vote against the original version of the Patriot Act.

Good for Russ. This piece of crap belongs on the ashheap next to the Alien and Sedition act, Executive Order 9066 which ordered internment, and the entirety of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

House, Senate Reach Deal on Patriot Act - Yahoo! News