CLAYTON CRAMER NOTES that some members of Congress are weighing in against extending some of the Patriot Act provisions that are scheduled to sunset. He also notes, correctly, that the Bush Administration’s penchant for secrecy on these kinds of things is costing it credibility:

If even the statistics are top secret, how can we, the public, tell whether these provisions are being appropriately used or not?

How, indeed? The Bush Administration has done rather well on the external front. Homeland Security, however, remains a much less impressive operation.