GRITtv: F Word: Bright Bipartisan Future on Civil Liberties?

Lately, when the term “bipartisan compromise” is tossed around, it tends to mean that Democrats are giving in to the Republican position on issues, or that women’s rights are being sacrificed to some larger purpose.

But there was bipartisanship of a different sort this week in the House, when civil libertarians on the left and the right of each party joined together to defeat some particularly controversial portions of the PATRIOT Act. Distributed by Tubemogul.