It actually seems understandable to me. Many politicians in the US are former lawyers, judges, etc. They could easily have learned lessons of how much privacy p

It actually seems understandable to me. Many politicians in the US are former lawyers, judges, etc. They could easily have learned lessons of how much privacy protections can get in the way of "real" investigations. They're also part of a government that has been handed more and more power for the better part of 60 years, privacy laws are a problem if your honest view is that the government is there to protect us by whatever means are necessary.