'Scuze me, but there's another war going on right now that's a good bit different from the ones you mentioned and requires some new tools to fight it. What specfic provision of the act are you at odds with?
Instead of bolstering it's advocacy for the Patriot Act, it seems this article defeats it's own objective by proving we don't need at least Section 213, because we already have, and have had, the authority for Sneak 'n Peek searches for decades.
If you have a law that says you can/can't smell the flowers, you don't need more laws that say you can/can't smell the red flowers, and the yellow flowers and the blue flowers, etc., etc.