Awaiting Orrin Hatch’s Apology

You’re a maddening figure, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). You seem like a nice enough gentleman. And then you say things like this — via Josh Orton at MyDD –  during last year’s debate over amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (video after the jump):

God it’s good to see a U.S. Senator dismiss concerns about insufficient safeguards on domestic surveillance collection by the National Security Agency by equating critics with 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Now that Hatch has read this New York Times story vindicating the people he smeared, Hatch is definitely going to come forward with a gracious and uncoerced apology befitting the stature of the man he knows in his heart he truly is.