President Obama will hold a press conference later today to announce new measures for increasing the transparency around the government's many surveillance efforts, The Wall Street Journal reports. The press conference is set for 3 PM EST, according to the article, and the official White House calendar lists a presser at that time in the East Room. It's unclear precisely what these new transparency measures will be, or how, if at all, they will address the numerous controversial surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency that have been revealed over the past three months by the internal documents obtained and leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden. President Obama did just hold a private meeting on surveillance...
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