Friday, December 20, 2013

President Obama to make 'definitive' statement about future of NSA surveillance in January


President Barack Obama has said that he will make a firm statement on reform of the US intelligence community in January. At an end-of-the-year press conference, he stated that "over the next several weeks," he would consider recommendations made by an oversight panel that filed its report in mid-December. "I'm going to make a pretty definitive statement about all of this in January," he said, noting that he would distinguish what would make sense and what would need refined. However, he maintained that surveillance so far had been performed responsibly. "In all the reviews, it hasn't been alleged that the NSA in some ways acted inappropriately in the use of this data," he said. "But what is also clear in the public debate, people are...


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