Content aside, the words chosen to construct the article's title is intruiging.

The same piece of news is currently on the HN front page twice [1][2], framed in two very different ways:

Wired: House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers

BBC: House rejects extension of 'Patriot Act' powers

[1] Here [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196126