Welcome to the worst week of Admiral Mike McConnell’s life.
Before the week is out, the director of national intelligence will appear before the House judiciary and intelligence committees to defend the Protect America Act — August’s McConnell-pushed relaxation of restrictions on surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Even before the act passed, prominent Democrats vowed to roll back FISA changes that many on the left consider ill-advised, including the abandonment of individualized suspicion.
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