Could a paragraph been added to a later publishing? Do the dates jive?
Considering the title of the article is the same in both publications, and the first paragraph is what provides justification for the title, I figure the author must have written it that way and someone one HE in their infinite wisdom took it out.
I read it first at Townhall and was going to post it, then I saw it was already posted, but from HE, and the excerpt didn't contain the paragraph, so I went to the the HE website and sure enough, it wasn't there.
Odd -- I was reading more and found the last paragraphs are different too. Looks like Human Events have deliberately weakened the article.
The last paragraph from the TH article is a good close:
"Lawmakers critical of the Patriot Act and NSA intercepts must decide if they really want to strip away one or more of these barriers between us and another terrorist attack."
The one in HE:
"The question for lawmakers in Washington, D.C. is simple: Do they want to keep in place all the redundant layers of protection that stand between us and the next 9/11? Or do they want to strip one or more of them away? "
I.e. giving the impression that it really would be OK to strip away those layers, because they are "redundant".
The sneaky editors!