WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) lashed out against a major National Security Agency reform bill on Tuesday, claiming that it would aid terror groups like the Islamic State. Almost a year ago, an independent review board could find no instance in which the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans' phone call records "made a concrete difference" in stopping a terrorist plot. Raising the specter of a U.S. aid worker recently beheaded by the Islamic State, however, McConnell argued that ending the phone tracking program would help terrorists. More...
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