BabaRa
17th January 2014, 19:12
I Believe?!?!?!? :hilarious:
Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government's collection of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing such records.
But the president defended the nation's spying apparatus as a whole, saying the intelligence community was not "cavalier about the civil liberties of our fellow citizens."
He also directed the United States' intelligence agencies to stop spying on friendly international leaders and called for extending some privacy protections to foreign citizens whose communications are scooped up by the U.S.
Obama said the U.S. had a "special obligation" to re-examine its intelligence capabilities because of the potential for trampling on civil liberties.
"The reforms I'm proposing today should give the American people greater confidence that their rights are being protected, even as our intelligence and law-enforcement agencies maintain the tools they need to keep us safe," he said in a highly anticipated speech at the Justice Department.
"This debate will make us stronger," he declared. "In this time of change, the United States of America will have to lead."
For complete article: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/17/obama-announces-changestonsadatacollection.html
Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government's collection of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing such records.
But the president defended the nation's spying apparatus as a whole, saying the intelligence community was not "cavalier about the civil liberties of our fellow citizens."
He also directed the United States' intelligence agencies to stop spying on friendly international leaders and called for extending some privacy protections to foreign citizens whose communications are scooped up by the U.S.
Obama said the U.S. had a "special obligation" to re-examine its intelligence capabilities because of the potential for trampling on civil liberties.
"The reforms I'm proposing today should give the American people greater confidence that their rights are being protected, even as our intelligence and law-enforcement agencies maintain the tools they need to keep us safe," he said in a highly anticipated speech at the Justice Department.
"This debate will make us stronger," he declared. "In this time of change, the United States of America will have to lead."
For complete article: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/17/obama-announces-changestonsadatacollection.html