White House Review Board Recommends New Limits On NSA Spying

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NSA Shouldn’t Keep Phone Database, Review Board Recommends -- Washington Post

A panel appointed by President Obama to review the government’s surveillance activities has recommended that the National Security Agency no longer keep a database of virtually all Americans’ phone records, and that decisions to spy on foreign leaders be subjected to greater scrutiny.

These are two of the more significant recommendations in a 308-page report issued by the White House Wednesday in an effort to restore public confidence in the nation’s spying apparatus.

The panel made 46 recommendations in all, which included moving the NSA’s information assurance directorate--its computer defense arm--outside the agency and under the Department of Defense’s cyber policy office. Allied foreign leaders or those with whom the U.S. shares a cooperative relationship should be accorded “a high degree of respect and deference,” the panel said.

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WNU Editor: This story will be updated tomorrow morning.