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Published on Jan 17, 2014
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President Obama's Friday speech on NSA surveillance is nothing more than a publicity stunt, journalist Glenn Greenwald, famous for numerous revelations about the NSA’s spying activities and secrets which he obtained thanks to documents provided by former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden, has said ahead of the US President’s much-anticipated speech.
“It’s really just basically a PR gesture, a
way to calm the public and to make them think there’s reform when in
reality there really won’t be," Greenwald said to Al Jazeera America,
adding that with all the things the public now know about the NSA and
its global surveillance program “they’re going to need more than just a
pretty speech from President Obama to feel as though their concerns have
been addressed.”
President Barack Obama called for
major changes to the way the US intelligence community collects and
stores information about people in the US and abroad, in the wake of
disclosures that have sparked fury over sweeping government surveillance
and stoked concerns about privacy.
Effective
immediately, the National Security Agency will be required to get a
secretive court's permission before accessing phone records that are
collected from hundreds of millions of Americans.
No
longer will national security letters be kept secret indefinitely.
Federal law enforcement officers issue these letters to banks, phone
companies and others, demanding customer information, and the recipients
are currently barred from disclosing that they've received the
requests.
Revelations that the US monitored the
communications of friendly heads of state have sparked outrage overseas.
Going forward, the US won't monitor the communications of "our close
friends and allies overseas" unless there's a compelling national
security purpose.
Obama is issuing a presidential
directive that outlines what the government uses intelligence for, and
what purposes are prohibited.
Read more:
Voice of Russia, AP, talkingpointsmemo.com
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