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Patriot Act debate highlights ‘stark’ differences between 2001, 2015 views

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It was the fall of 2001 and John Cornyn was getting ready to run for the U.S. Senate when terrorists sent a jolt through the world and changed the politics of national security forever.

“I remember when my wife pointed . . . to the TV, when the second plane hit the tower,” the Texas Republican, now the Senate’s majority whip, recalled Tuesday afternoon.

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