Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of the Senate, counts only a few regrets in his 47-year career: filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act, voting to expand the Vietnam War and backing airline deregulation.
This week he added a new one: having joined the stampede in 2001 that passed the dubiously named USA Patriot Act weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
What's missing is Byrd's membership in the Ku Klux Klan.
Facts can be so inconvient.
If it had been a Republican you can bet USA wouldn't have left that out.
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