Obama administration starts to implement changes to NSA phone records program

[ProSense]

Obama administration starts to implement changes to NSA phone records program

By Andrea Peterson

During his Jan. 17 speech on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, President Obama proposed a number of changes to the agency's bulk domestic phone records program. Thursday, the administration announced that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) approved a motion to start implementing some of those changes.

Specifically, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the court granted a motion to modify the most recent primary order authorizing the 215 phone records program to ensure that the metadata will only be queried after a judicial finding that there is a "reasonable, articulable suspicion" that the selection is associated with an international terrorist organization "absent a true emergency." In addition, the motion limited the query results to metadata within two hops of the selection term, rather than the prior three.

The FISC also ordered a classification review of the motions and the most recent primary order authorizing the program from January of this year, the government's motion to amend that order, and the court's order granting that motion, to be completed by Feb. 17. Once the review is completed, ODNI says the documents will "will be published as appropriate."

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Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office mirrored his sentiments. "It's good to see that some of the president's reforms to the bulk collection program have been implemented," she said. "What we need now, though, is not tinkering around the edges but an end to bulk collection. If the president won't end the program, then Congress must pass the USA FREEDOM Act and shut it down permanently."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/07/obama-administration-starts-to-implement-changes-to-nsa-phone-records-program/

[Cha]

1. thank you, ProSense..

[ProSense]

4. Obama is doing something positive

Quick everybody scream non sequiturs. LOL!

[Cha]

5. "Too little too

late and besides nothing's going to stop me from whining about how it's all Obama's fault"

[ProSense]

6. That's because

""Too little too late and besides nothing's going to stop me from whining about how it's all Obama's fault"

...it's not about NSA policy. It's about using anything to advance the anti-Obama whining and the Greenwald/Snowden fandom.

[Cha]

7. Exactly.. the ugly hate is

out in full swing. that's because Greenwald and Snowden fucking have the lying vicious hate out on President Obama and like good little fans.. they echo.

Wonder how welcome their 3rd party screed will be around campaign and election time?

[MannyGoldstein]

2. But since the White House has zero problems with lying about the NSA,

we actually have zero idea of what's *really* going on.

[ProSense]

3. Yes, the OP is a lie.

For all we know, Obama isn't the President...or black.

[struggle4progress]

8. The Senate has tools to defend itself

[MannyGoldstein]

9. The White House has no problems with lying to Congress. nt

[ProSense]

10. Clapper is the WH? What does that have to do with the OP?

Other than desperation to change the subject?

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Who does Clapper serve at the pleasure of?

And what did this person do when Clapper admitted lying to Congress?

[ProSense]

14. What does that have to do with the OP?

"Who does Clapper serve at the pleasure of?"

This is a desperate attempt at deflection. I mean, you've already dismissed the OP as "we actually have zero idea of what's *really* going on."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024473684#post2

You simply don't want Obama to get credit for doing anything.

[MannyGoldstein]

16. What the President and the NSA *claim* they're doing - and what they're actually doing - may be

totally different. The President has said that it's absolutely fine for that to be the case, no problems.

So any claims should be regarded as suspect.

[ProSense]

19. Yeah, yeah. n/t

[Cha]

11. Kick

[spanone]

13. k&r...

[sheshe2]

15. Kick Rec and thank you! n/t

[AgingAmerican]

17. Thanks Obama

...for listening to Snowden and Greenwald on this vital issue.

[Cali_Democrat]

20. If Obama did listen to Greenwald on this vital issue....

Why did Greenwald say it's nothing more than a PR attempt to mollify the public?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-bulk-surveillance-remains

You said he listened to Greenwald. Perhaps Greenwald should be a little more grateful if Obama listened to him?

[AgingAmerican]

21. Obama responded to public outrage

...which was sparked by the NSA revelations.

[Cali_Democrat]

22. So Obama did listen to Greenwald as YOU just said

Greenwald should say so.

[AgingAmerican]

25. Whatever you are talking about

has absolutely nothing to do with what I am saying.

Reminds me of the townspeople on Green Acres. They even take themselves literally.

[Cha]

23. Perhaps Greenwald is a fucking disingenuous bully who

has a book to sell?

[Cali_Democrat]

24. Well don't beat around the bush, Cha!

[Cha]

26. the cult of greenwald

is disturbing.

[TheMathieu]

18. Good job, Mr. President.

A true man of the people.

[hughee99]

27. So if I understand correctly, the NSA is still going to collect all the same info,

they've just made it a little tougher to officially query.... and we only really have their word on that. I'm happy the president seems to be trying to address at least some of the problems, but can you really blame people for not trusting the NSA?

[ProSense]

28. If Congress

"I'm happy the president seems to be trying to address at least some of the problems, but can you really blame people for not trusting the NSA?"

...passed the USA FREEDOM Act, as the ACLU recommends, would you that help in "trusting the NSA"?

I mean, why would someone trust the NSA?

Yes, it's a good thing that the President is moving forward with the changes he proposed.