GRIM PEEPER: “McConnell will expressly permit the FBI to warrantlessly collect records on Americans’ web browsing and search histories..McConnell’s moves are an alarming expansion of Attorney General Bill Barr’s powers.”-@thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnel…
2/ “One privacy activist called McConnell’s efforts ‘two of the most cynical attempts to undermine surveillance reform I've ever seen.’”-@thedailybeast
3/ “Under McConnell amendment, Barr gets to look through the web browsing history of any American—including journalists, politicians, and rivals—without a warrant, just by saying it is relevant to an investigation,” said @RonWyden, who has tried to ban warrantless surveillance.
4/ “The McConnell amendment hands vast surveillance powers to Attorney General Barr at a moment when he is accelerating the corruption of the Department of Justice to serve Donald Trump’s political whims,” said @RonWyden.-@thedailybeast
5/ Twinning.
