White House panel recommends NSA reforms

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post

The White House is expected to release later Wednesday the report of a surveillance review board that has recommended modifying the National Security Agency counterterrorism program that collects virtually all Americans’ phone records.

The recommendation that the NSA no longer keep its phone database — estimated by some former officials to contain more than 1 trillion records — is among more than 40 sweeping technical reforms aimed at restoring public confidence in the spying apparatus, said individuals briefed on its contents

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-shouldnt-keep-phone-database-review-board-recommends/2013/12/18/f44fe7c0-67fd-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html

[Lint Head]

1. Reform hell! End it. Phone tapping does not need an entire agency just for that purpose.

[Demeter]

2. You can't turn a fascist Stazi police state into a Constitutionally permitted function

Burn it down!

[Danascot]

3. Obama's tacit support of the status quo on NSA spying

has hurt him, his initiatives and other dems badly. He needs to position himself on the right side of this issue quickly or face further erosion of his effectiveness.

Also, link to NYT article - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/us/politics/report-on-nsa-surveillance-tactics.html?emc=edit_na_20131218&_r=0

[Pholus]

4. "said individuals briefed on its contents"

Knowledge is best kept away from "the common folk."

They might get confused.

Nice story, though....good catch.