Well, not exactly. But they did drop a lawsuit against it citing "improvements to the law". Here’s the ONLY part that was changed that appease the ACLU:
The lawsuit, filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Mich., and five other nonprofit groups, was the first legal challenge to Section 215. That part of the Patriot Act lets federal agents obtain such things as library records and medical information.
The ACLU said the revisions allow people receiving demands for records to consult with a lawyer and challenge the demands in court.
So, a bunch of lawyers sue the federal government and the end result is everything is peachy so long as people have to hire a bunch of lawyers to obtain exactly the same result they most likely would have had without hiring a bunch of lawyers that a bunch of lawyers insisted upon.
Bush haters will claim victory since the ACLU claims:
"…we succeeded in stemming the damage from some of the Bush administration’s most reckless policies," Ann Beeson, the New York-based associate legal director of the ACLU, said in a written statement.
Ann, the policy’s exactly the same. All you did was drag a bunch of lawyers into the mix. That’s it.
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