U.S. President Barack Obama holds year-end news conference, White House briefing room, Washington, Dec. 20, 2013.
Obama Discusses Potential NSA Reforms With Congressmen -- Time
After months of backroom discussions, the President is getting ready to unveil modest reforms for the spy agency.
President Obama huddled with sixteen congressmen at the White House Thursday to discuss potential National Security Agency reforms, moving one step closer to releasing his recommendations to fix the spy agency after six months of international debate and congressional hearings.
The 90-minute meeting focused on two potential changes. One would strip the NSA of its ability to store so-called telephone “metadata”—information about the phone numbers involved in calls, including their length, but not their content. Instead, the President may determine that a third party or the phone companies themselves hold the records. The other change would create a special public advocate to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, so that judges, who now only hear the government’s position, could hear civil liberty concerns as well. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that Obama will announce any potential NSA or FISA reforms before the State of the Union on January 28.
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More News On President Obama Discussing NSA Reforms With Congress
Obama solicits views on NSA changes -- USA Today
Lawmakers: Obama weighing changes in NSA policy -- Washington Post/AP
Obama Nearing Decisions on Curbing US Surveillance -- Voice of America
Obama Readies Revamp of NSA -- Wall Street Journal
Obama Seeks Balance in Plan for Spy Programs -- New York Times
Obama meets lawmakers ahead of intelligence reform decisions -- Reuters
Obama Meets With Congress on NSA -- US News and World Report
Obama, lawmakers discuss whether to end NSA collection of Americans’ phone records -- Washington Post
Obama ponders limiting NSA access to phone records -- FOX News
Obama considering stripping NSA's power to store phone records -- CBS/AP
President Obama to curb NSA access to phone records -- PBS Newshour
Obama expected to curb spying on foreign leaders, limit NSA access to phone records -- RT
Obama Said to Favor Limits on Spying on Foreign Leaders -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Decision of NSA data collection programs may be near -- UPI
Ron Wyden: the future of NSA programs is being determined now -- The Guardian
What will happen to NSA programs? That’s a secret -- Adam Serwer, MSNBC
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Who are the 'sixteen' from The Congress?
This Super Committee of Sixteen needs to be on SURVEILLANCE.
How many Super Committee of Sixteen Congressmen/women are Jews and Financed by Jews?
How many of this Super Committee of Sixteen Congressmen/women are pro-Israel and approved by AIPAC, J-STREET, ADL AND SWC?
The world is watching.
Watching me, watching you, watching.
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