McConnell: NSA reform will help ISIS

“This is the worst possible time to be tying our hands behind our backs,” the minority leader said.

The threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) “is real,” he added, and “different from what we’ve faced before.”

“At a moment when the United States is conducting a military campaign to disrupt, dismantle and defeat ISIL, now is not the time to be considering legislation that takes away the exact tools we need to combat ISIL,” he said, using an alternate acronym for the terror group.