Pres Obama expected to curb spying on foreign leaders, limit NSA access to phone records.

Pres Obama expected to curb spying on foreign leaders, limit NSA access to phone records.(RT).

According to preliminary reports, United States President Barack Obama could soon ask the National Security Agency to stop storing the telephone records of millions of Americans and also scale back the spying endeavors that target foreign leaders.

President Obama spent Wednesday talking face-to-face with the United States’ intelligence community’s top players, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander, and on Thursday he is expected to host a closed-door meeting between White House aides and key members of Congress.

As RT reported previously, the chairs of both the Senate and House intelligence committees are expected to attend that outing, and invitations were extended to other lawmakers who have expressed interest in reforming the NSA but few others.

The president is reportedly close to announcing what changes he’ll ask be made to the NSA’s operations that have served as a thorn of the side of his administration since Snowden, a former intelligence contractor, began leaking classified documents to the media last June detailing those programs.
“These meetings are an opportunity for the president to hear from key stakeholders as we near the end of our review,” National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden told the Guardian newspaper this week.
An independent review group handpicked by the president in August released a report last month containing 46 recommendations for reforming the NSA, and on Thursday the Associated Press reported that Mr. Obama is expected to endorse two of those suggestions — particularly the pair involving the bulk collection of telephone metadata and spying on foreign leaders.
The AP reported that the president is expected to make his decision as early as next week, and other outlets have previously reported that he’ll reveal those proposals before the State of the Union Address on January 28.Hmmmm.....In other News the Earth is still flat, but the tortoise supporting it has been relieved by a Democrat.Read the full story here.