Here's The Biggest Change Obama Is Making To The NSA
AP
Perhaps the biggest change Obama is proposing will be a limit on the NSA's ability to collect bulk phone "metadata" from millions of Americans, under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. In the next 60 days, Obama will ask Congress, the Justice Department, and the intelligence community to decide where such data should be stored.
"The president believes that the 215 program addresses important capabilities that allow us to counter terrorism, but that we can and should be able to preserve those capabilities while addressing the privacy and civil liberties concerns that are raised by the government holding this metadata," a senior administration official said.
Immediately, Obama will also tweak the program to require judicial approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court every time the government wants a query on information from the phone database to go forward, according to senior administration officials. That would end the government's blanket access to the data as it stands now.
Some other key changes Obama is proposing:
- Obama will call to an end of surveillance of friendly foreign leaders. "Those leaders should know he'll call them" when he wants to find out their thinking on something, a senior administration official said.
- In a presidential policy directive, Obama outlined the six purposes for which the government can use data collected in bulk: (1) espionage and other threats and activities directed by foreign powers or their intelligence services against the United States and its interests; (2) threats to the United States and its interests from terrorism; (3) threats to the United States and its interests from the development, possession, proliferation, or use of weapons of mass destruction; (4) cybersecurity threats; (5) threats to U.S. or allied Armed Forces or other U.S or allied personnel; and (6) transnational criminal threats, including illicit finance and sanctions evasion.
- The Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor (APNSA) and Director of National Intelligence will coordinate an annual review of the NSA's collection programs.
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