A guide through Senate amendments to the USA FREEDOM Act
June 2, 2015
The attached policy brief was co-authored by R Street Outreach Manager Nathan Leamer.
NSA apologists (we sometimes call them “the security hawks”) could use the USA FREEDOM Act as a vehicle to attach amendments introduced by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that would significantly weaken and delay the reforms. These amendments are poison pills that would force many privacy and tech groups to rescind their support.
Here is a brief overview of the four amendments in question, which are presented below in order of how negatively they would affect the USA FREEDOM Act…
