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I don't believe that was the purpose. First of all, the changes were 8 years in the making, so put that aside. The real question is after such a long wait, why was it one of the last things done before the Hussein administration was no longer in control of our government?
So, what exactly did change? Only the sharing capabilities. Prior to the amendment, the NSA would filter the data before fulfilling any requests from the other government agencies. That means they would search and evaluate the data, use minimization procedures to protect information of innocent American citizens, and pass along the only the portions of emails and phone calls they deemed relevant to the request. NSA was in complete control of the raw data. Who was in charge of the NSA at the time? Admiral Mike Rogers.
The amendment didn't change anything about the raw data collection, but it put in place procedures that would have NSA share raw unminimized sigint with the other Intelligence Community agencies. Unminimized, meaning that all 16 IC agencies would have innocent citizens' personal data at their fingertips. Now, that is limited to only certain raw data, specifically for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence.
What investigations do we know of that were ongoing during this time period? Crossfire Hurricane? Hmmm. Carter Page -a foreign agent according to the FISA? Counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, then administration?
My opinion, the amendment was rushed through before Hussein left office so that the Deep State actors entrenched in our government could continue their spying efforts (and bypass Adm. Rogers at NSA) and enable their coup of our duly elected President.
Could this possibly be their insurance policy?