An Anti-Liberty GOP RINO Clone strikes again : Mitch McConnell striking a blow against American Libe

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a filthy piece of work, siding more often with Democrats or harvesting graft for his personal gain or pork bellies for his State.

Reuters

In a move likely to re-ignite public debate in America over electronic spying, Republicans have introduced a bill in the Senate to extend a controversial law empowering the government's bulk collection of U.S. telephone records.

President Barack Obama and many in Congress want to retain the mass data-collection program as a national security tool but want substantial changes in the program, which was secret until disclosed two years ago by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is sponsoring a bill to extend until Dec. 31, 2020, a provision of the USA Patriot Act that the National Security Agency used to collect and store vast quantities of "metadata" charting telephone calls made by Americans. The law is due to expire on June 1.

Republicans said they would expedite Senate consideration of McConnell's bill, which was submitted late on Tuesday, by sending it directly to the Senate floor rather than considering it first in committee.

Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, acknowledged that prospects for the bill's passage were uncertain but said it would establish the parameters for debate.

The NSA program to collect and analyze telephone metadata was authorized by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Yeah, so much for individual liberty

Or am I eating paint chips again?