In a speech about the National Security Agency (NSA) on Friday, President Barack Obama trimmed the powers of the secretive US eavesdropping agency
As a result, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released more previously-secret documents about the controversial cell phone surveillance program
Among the 400 pages released on the DNI website is information showing the 'telephony meta data' was approved in April 2006
The documents say the program stored cell phone numbers and call durations but not 'communications data', i.e. conversations
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The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has released an additional 400 pages of once-secret security documents in response to changes laid out by President Obama on Friday relating to the nation's polarizing surveillance practices.
The declassification of the spy documents is part of a move by Obama to make public as much information as possible concerning the controversial bulk telephone-data-collection program that has angered many Americans over the six months.
The documents were posted on the DNI's website.
Going public: James Clapper, Director of
National Intelligence, has declassified a raft of documents, at the
request of President Obama, relating to the nation's controversial cell
phone surveillance program
In a speech about the National Security Agency
(NSA) on Friday, President Obama trimmed the powers of the secretive US
eavesdropping agency
Furor: Protests erupted after the extent of the US cellphone surveillance program were exposed by Edward Snowden last year
Obama issued the order in response to an international firestorm over the sweeping nature of the nation's spying that kicked up last summer when former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden began disclosing details of the surveillance programs, according to Fox News.
In his speech Friday, Obama said the NSA will need approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court each time it searches the trove of phone data.
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