obama_nsa_overhaul_announceLooks like some kinds of corrections are occurring here (go to the original article to see the White House press release about this).

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Obama announces NSA programs overhaul

President Barack Obama announced as expected on Friday a major overhaul to some of the National Security Agency's most disputed surveillance operations seven months after they was first exposed, reining in the metadata collection program among others.

Effective immediately, the president said, NSA officials must obtain court permission in order to access the government's archive of telephone metadata — a trove of intelligence that has been regularly collected by the government through a program that its proponents say is a legally sound and crucial counterterrorism tool justified under Section 215 of the United States Patriot Act.

Evidence of that program was exposed last June through classified documents disclosed to the media by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and spurred an immediate and ongoing international discussion that cumulated with the president's endorsement of reform during a Friday morning speech inside the Justice Department building in downtown Washington, DC.

"I believe we need a new approach," Mr. Obama said. "I am therefore ordering a transition that will end the Section 215 bulk metadata collection program as it currently exists, and establishes a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk metadata."
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