As someone who does care about this a bit, I thought McConnell's quote in the AP article was interesting (mostly because I agree with him about not enhancing privacy protections, but for presumably opposite reasons): I'm worried that what interest there is in privacy protections now will flag because anything got passed. I figure that if this actually significantly impacted collection, there would have been a lot more push back against it. But this bill is a change that resulted from a more informed public. So that's good. "This is a step in the wrong direction," a frustrated McConnell said on the Senate floor ahead of the Senate's final vote to approve the House version, dubbed the USA Freedom Act. He said the legislation "does not enhance the privacy protections of American citizens. And it surely undermines American security by taking one more tool form our warfighters at exactly the wrong time."