HUFFINGTON POST / REUTERS: President Barack Obama said on Thursday he intends to propose National Security Agency reforms to reassure Americans that their privacy is not being violated by the agency.
“Part of what we’re trying to do over the next month or so is, having done an independent review and brought a whole bunch of folks, civil libertarians and lawyers and others to examine what’s being done, I’ll be proposing some self-restraint on the NSA and to initiate some reforms that can give people more confidence,” Obama said in an interview on the MSNBC television program “Hardball with Chris Matthews.”
A steady drip of revelations of NSA snooping has raised widespread concern about the reach of the agency’s operations and its ability to pry into the affairs of private individuals as well as the communications of foreign leaders… (more)
