White House official sees need for 'constraints' on NSA spying
Source: Reuters
The White House said on Monday that some constraints are needed in U.S. surveillance practices in the wake of embarrassing revelations about the sweeping nature of U.S. spying.
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White House spokesman Jay Carney said that with new intelligence-gathering capabilities, "We recognize there needs to be additional constraints on how we gather and use intelligence."
Carney's comment, along with a tweet from National Security Adviser Susan Rice that a "proper balance" is needed, suggested some changes might be in the offing on the scale of U.S. electronic spying as part of a review of the collection activities of the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies.
The review is to be completed by year's end.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/28/usa-security-idUSL1N0II13K20131028
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Just fucking stop it!
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)If I'm not mistaken, this crap was started under George W. Bush, and President Obama needs to just order the NSA to stop it....period!
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Light dawns on marblehead....
And Mr. President, about those drones....and Gitmo....and FEMA concentration camps...and Homeland Security in the airports and on the borders...
and the bleeding IRS and credit bureaus in Obamacare....
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)The constraints are already there -- it's just a matter of the administration recognizing and abiding by them.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Yes. Here come those reasonable, adult-like Neo-Cons.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Well I'll be!
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Party unity in 2014!
progressoid
(49,992 posts)kurosagi
(26 posts)to decide whether the sub-committee's findings were accurate. Then another committee to make suggestions on those findings. Then one person will throw it all out.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Although hearings will provide a feel-good that something is 'being done'...as if anyone can put the toothpaste back in the tube, or would want to.
sherihah
(11 posts)TBF
(32,084 posts)that crappy piece of legislation (passed during the Bush years) is responsible for a lot of grief.
PSPS
(13,608 posts)TBF
(32,084 posts)and we should be pointing out that the republican party should be taken to task for this. The Patriot Act was passed under Bush's regime.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)And the wiretapping started in 2002. This is a Bush administration policy that the White House will put an end to.