Patriot Act Misused in Mile High Case

Concurring Options (a law blog) has a summary of various articles about a couple arrested for overt sexual activity on a plane. On what would otherwise be an amusing random news story (perhaps not to them), I see this in the story: "A couple's ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for 20 years." Yep, we need these powers to help fight terrorists and we wouldn't dream of using them against anyone else. And we don't listen to your phone calls or look at your bank accounts, riiiight. This is why we don't give the government more powers than they need.