The Associated Press reports on what President Barack Obama is expected to say regarding possible changes to National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance reform. Though he is “expected to endorse changes to the way government collects millions of Americans’ phone records,” he will likely leave specific changes and decisions to an already divided Congress, the report states. In his speech this Friday, Obama is also expected to announce further privacy protections for non-U.S. citizens, and according to The New York Times, he will propose an advocate within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) but will not back a plan to have telecommunications firms retain metadata. PC World reports that FISC judges are not supporting calls for a privacy advocate within the court, and Politico reports that the Center for Security Policy has issued a report rejecting most of the recommendations set forth by an intelligence review group. Meanwhile, all five members of Obama’s intelligence review group testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
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