THE HILL — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) won’t support an upcoming bill to reform the National Security Agency (NSA) without changes to strengthen it, an aide told The Hill on Friday.
“Sen. Paul does not feel that the current NSA reforms go far enough,” the aide said in an email.
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“There are significant problems with the bill, the most notable being an extension of the Patriot Act through December 2017.”
The USA Freedom Act, which the Senate will take up next week, would end the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata about Americans’ phone calls, among other changes. Metadata includes the numbers people dial as well as the length and frequency of their calls, but not the actual content of their conversations.
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