U.S. Sen. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., last Tuesday. (Alex Wong, Getty Images)
Re: “Limit NSA mining of phone records,” May 20 editorial.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the lessons of 9/11, or the memory of the 3,000 victims who perished that fateful morning in September 2001, have been lost on the Democrats who oppose anti-terror measures.
Despite the efforts of the National Security Agency to gather intelligence that is vital to keeping Americans safe, The Denver Post is excoriating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for defending the Patriot Act.
There is no evidence to support the editorial’s contention that the government does not have the right to gather telephone records — or, in Denver Post parlance, to conduct “sweeping and indiscriminate data mining” — in a time of war.
The sacrifice of civil liberties is a small price to pay for keeping millions of Americans safe. If the Senate is serious about preventing another 9/11 on American soil, it will reject the anti-surveillance notion out of hand.
Brian Stuckey, Denver
This letter was published in the May 25 edition.
