(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) Mitch McConnell defended his support for the Patriot Act — specifically, a measure allowing a National Security Agency program to collect phone data of Americans.
The Senate majority leader called the measure “an important tool to prevent the next terrorist attack,” while pledging to continue fighting for it amid calls for it to be changed.
“The nation is better off with an extension of the Patriot Act than not, but we’ll see where the votes go,” the Kentucky Republican said during a Sunday speech at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston.
