Obama to Call for Overhaul of N.S.A.’s Phone Data Collection Program
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/us/politics/obam
Obama to Call for Overhaul of N.S.A.s Phone Data Collection Program
President Obama will require intelligence agencies to obtain permission from a secret court before tapping into a vast database of telephone data, but he will leave the data in the hands of the government for now, an administration official said.
Mr. Obama, in a much-anticipated speech on Friday morning, plans to pull back the governments wide net of surveillance at home and abroad, staking out a middle ground between the far-reaching proposals of his own advisers and the concerns of the nations intelligence agencies.
At the heart of the changes, spurred by the disclosure of surveillance practices by a former National Security Agency contractor, Edward J. Snowden, will be an overhaul of a bulk data collection program that has swept up many millions of records of Americans telephone calls, though not their content.
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grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)hueymahl
(2,468 posts)Or, for the reflexive statists out there who wish to parse that phrase - read "illegal" as "unconstitutional", but not yet definitively ruled on by the courts. Hopefully it will be soon.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)"President Obama will require intelligence agencies to obtain permission from a secret court before tapping into a vast database of telephone data, but he will leave the data in the hands of the government for now, an administration official said. "
Oh. It's a secret. So a secret agency will have to secretly get secret approval from a secret court before they can secretly tap into our phone data. What's being pulled back? What is the overhaul here? Uhm, who's this secret court? Oh, it's secret. How do they get approval? It's secret. What's the big secret? That's a secret.
What a load of shit.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)By "overhaul", he means "still breaking the law, but doing it in a way so their will be no more leaks"