Wired.com is reporting Democratic Senate leaders have bowed to FBI concerns that adding privacy protections to an expiring provision of the PATRIOT Act could jeopardize “ongoing” terror investigations. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, chair Sen. Patrick Leahy and Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced last-minute changes that would strip away some of the privacy protections Leahy had espoused just the week before. The changes deal with one of the most controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act, Section 215, that allows a secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, to authorize broad warrants for most any type of records, including those held by banks, libraries and doctors. Just last week, Leahy touted an amendment that would have required the secret warrants to be granted only in connection to terrorism cases. But under the Leahy-Feinstein amendment, the standard would allow secret court warrants to be issued if the information sought pertains to any “authorized investigation.”