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ederal privacy panel calls on Obama to end NSA phone spying, scrap stockpiled records
Thursday, January 23, 2014 Last updated: Thursday January 23, 2014, 9:20 PM
BY STEPHEN BRAUN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A government review panel warned on Thursday that the National Security Agency’s daily collection of Americans’ phone records is illegal and recommended that President Obama abandon the program and destroy the hundreds of millions of phone records it has already collected.
The recommendations by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board go further than Obama is willing to accept and increase pressure on Congress to make changes.
The 234-page report included dissents from two of the board’s five members — both former Bush administration national security lawyers who recommended that the government keep collecting the phone records. The board described key parts of its report to Obama this month before he announced his plans last week to change the government’s surveillance activities.
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